[plug] Linux beats Windows in cost study

[Jacqueline McNally]

Please accept my apologies for replying to my own post.

This same article was posted to a schoolie list by someone else, and what 
they have filtered out the article, is how many IT professionals that you 
need to support 250 computers in a school, and that Linux professionals get 
paid more.

Salaries always form a large component of the budget, but I'm a little 
puzzled. I know that at my Mam's school it is a contractor that is assigned 
to so many schools and she has to wait for him to come in on his day of the 
week to her school. That is, there are no IT staff as such.

All the best
Jacqueline

At 03:21 PM 05/06/2002, you wrote:
>Linux beats Windows in cost study
>Caitlin Fitzsimmons
>MAY 06, 2002
>
>COMPANIES that pick Linux rather than Microsoft save tens of thousands of 
>dollars a year, a study shows.
>
>Cybersource, an IT service provider that offers Linux, Unix, TCP/IP and 
>Windows solutions, examined the total cost of ownership of Linux and 
>Windows systems.
>
>http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4264906%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
>
>For those of you that have been working on benefits to schools because of 
>proprietary licensing issues. You may wish to follow up this article or 
>send your articles about schools for Thursdays print edition, which I 
>think happens later in the week.
>
>All the best
>Jacqueline
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