[Opensource] Changing software purchase models

[Adam Barbary]

Woohoo! Someone actually looking at the software licensing issues.  
Once they fix NSW I hope they head south to wean Spring St off the  
software treadmill.

Adam Barbary
Viewbank College

On 07/05/2008, at 5:30 PM, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:

> Computerworld has published an interesting story 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
>
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