[plug] Linux beats Windows in cost study

[Trent Lloyd]

ms office is like "standard" these days
if you didnt have it to do your homework on you would be looked up on
weirdly...

so lets all shell out $1200 a go for doing out homework. hmm no thanks

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:37:19PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Monday 06 May 2002 17:20, Jacqueline McNally wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I think my chequebook stopped reading at the point where the M$ 
> software-plus-licencing budget exceeded $1,000,000.00 per employee versus 
> about 30c per employee for Linux.
> 
> If you read the Peruvian article (see mails entitled `Go Peru!'), Microsoft 
> accounted software and licencing costs as 8% of all IT expenses (and then 
> went on to claim that losing this will devastate the Peruvian IT market in a 
> later point, which faux pas the nice Senator proceeded to bludgeon them with, 
> but that's another story), so in theory the max saving would be 8% of IOT 
> spending.
> 
> OTOH, school IT budgets, particularly small schools, would hardly match the 
> average industry profile. Not many corporations factor in donated computer 
> hardware or volunteer time. Does anyone have any hard data (as percentages 
> rather than $ amounts) for categories of IT spending in Australian schools? 
> Mike?
> 
> Cheers; Leon
>