[Wolves] Times Ed - "Ditching Microsoft can save millions"

[Deusiah]

Interesting info, how do you suggest we help schools do the decent thing 
though? Have some kind of Linux for Schools convention? lol

On 5/6/05, Andy Wootton <andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> This is the title of today's Times Educational Supplement front page 
> story.
> 
> BECTA says that primary schools could save 49% of costs and secondary
> schools 24%, by using open source software.
> 
> They compared 15 schools using OSS with 33 using "paid-for software". I
> suspect the results may be slightly optimistic because the 15 techies
> clearly had a clue.
> How strange that the conclusion should be so different to when Microsoft
> pays consultants to do an independent TCO study.
> 
> The Microsoft spokesperson said that schools only pay a fifth of the
> rates companies pay for MS Office so I assume the savings can be
> multiplied by 5 for everyone else ;-)
> 
> This could be a good time to help local schools do the decent thing.
> 
> Woo
> 
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