[Technical] Interestingcomputers-in-education

[Clark, Ian C]

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> So this is what's being supplied under the $22 million deal?
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Hi Con,

As the director of a company that sells IT products, you're aware the
savings a very big organization can get for the products its users want
can be phenomenal.

At the Department of Education and Training, we're talking about up to
200,000 computers here, especially if you include the ones not in
schools but in Department offices.
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/ict/computer/inschools/pdf/ITstatsJuly2004.
pdf

You gave the figures yourself - a $20 million agreement over three years
means about $35 annually for each computer, for all these products:
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/ict/software/microsoft/agreements.htm

And on top of all of this, teachers can install back in their own homes
the following products: upgrade version of XP, Office Pro, Front Page,
Visual Studio .Net (pro version).

That's amazing.

A single Red Hat Workstation has an annual fee of three hundred US
dollars. http://www.redhat.com.au/software/rhel/compare/client/

It's up to organizations to do a similar sort of package deal with Red
Hat to bring that down - if they really want the product in the first
place. And that's the key.

People don't automatically want the cheapest product, they also want the
one that suits them best - that's what Sun found with Telstra:
http://cio.co.nz/cio.nsf/0/1AC9651E6AABD504CC256F090077DFC9?OpenDocument

Cheers,
Clarky





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