[dundee] Dundee City Council goes Linux!

[Andrew Clayton]

On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 10:59, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> Hrm, one IBM Z-Series 800 says no the tax will not fall. The only price I
> can find for one is $400,000 in basic trim which translates into more
> than 230,000 of our quids and then there's a nice juicey IBM support
> contract to add to the mix :) 
> 
> I reckon getting that all up and playing nice probably destroyed a lot
> of a half million...
> 

Perhaps... but then again, they could be spending a lot more than that
[1] with their current setup....


[1] Either with the M$ TAX or if they are on some other proprietary
system, then the maintenance costs of those *systems* won't come
cheap... hmm...e.g, why is everyone switching from Solaris/SPARC to
Linux/x86....


> Mark
> 


Andrew