[Opensource] Changing software purchase models

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Computerworld has published an interesting
story<http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/FE73A77E2BB96F21CC257425007DCB21>about
computers rolling out to schools. The NSW department of education has
announced that it will install OpenOffice, on 41,000 computers due to be
distributed to schools across the state by the end of 2008. They will also
downgrade every new computer it buys from Vista to Windows XP.

The report notes that "This incurred an additional expense in the short
term, he says, but was less expensive over the life of the computer. The
move is less a backlash against Microsoft and more recognition that the
purchasing model for software in educational institutions is changing."

It seems as if somebody in NSW is wide awake and noticed that the world of
ICT is changing very fast. Well, good on them!

-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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