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Is using and making green technology a moral duty? A fourth of those IT bosses taking part in a investigation by the analysis company IDC thinks it is.

A concept called “Total carbon cost of ownership” by IDC is making progress. It means to calculate the environmental affect into TCO and is expected increase the pressure on the suppliers of gadgets and computers to give their product a longer life.

Short life is one of the problem with products from the technology industry. The cost of keeping a old system up and running is often much more expensive than buying a new product. And then the companies are happy and gets to sell even more thing to us.

In the recent investigation from IDC 28,6 percent of those participating thinks green technology is a moral duty, and 23,8 percent thinks that the responsibility is the suppliers. 12,2 percent also thinks that it could be an competitive advantage to go for green technology products. At Gartner’s CIO Summit currently ongoing in Barcelona the question of green technology has been raised and is considered to be of high importance. As a change from previously this quiestion is discussed in Europe instead of in the U.S. Gartner seam to think we in Europe need to stop waiting for U.S. and start putting pressure for increased development.

For everyone of us who cares for both technology and the environment this should come as great news. Still, I wish that the at least 50 % of the IT bosses cared to… not only 28 %. But I guess one have to start somewhere. It’ll be fun seeing how this develops in the next couple of years.