Interesting info, how do you suggest we help schools do the decent
thing though? Have some kind of Linux for Schools convention? lol<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/6/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andy Wootton</b> <<a href="mailto:andy.wootton@wyrley.demon.co.uk">andy.wootton@wyrley.demon.co.uk
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This is the title of today's Times Educational Supplement front page story.
<br><br>BECTA says that primary schools could save 49% of costs and secondary<br>schools 24%, by using open source software.<br><br>They compared 15 schools using OSS with 33 using "paid-for software". I<br>suspect the results may be slightly optimistic because the 15 techies
<br>clearly had a clue.<br>How strange that the conclusion should be so different to when Microsoft<br>pays consultants to do an independent TCO study.<br><br>The Microsoft spokesperson said that schools only pay a fifth of the
<br>rates companies pay for MS Office so I assume the savings can be<br>multiplied by 5 for everyone else ;-)<br><br>This could be a good time to help local schools do the decent thing.<br><br>Woo<br><br>_______________________________________________
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