Re: [Staffslug] Moving my local Primary School to Open Source

Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Hi Gordon OK so here's some questions from a business perspective so forgive me if it comes across as non sugary spice and all things nice :-) > My local Primary school is currently paying large sums to RM and MS for > their ICT setup, along with all the restrictive practices that RM seem to > operate by. > Er Schools don't pay large sums of money for MS software in fact Educational Software his heavyly discounted, as an example Windows 7 will be available to students at a cost of £30.00 for either Home or Pro editions. Which is a pretty reasonable price given that everything in the UK at the minute is £30. Sky £30 Mobile Phone £30 Virgin Media £30 <Rant over> Given that for Joe Public and businesses the prices will be around £150 for home £220 for Pro and a whopping £230 for ultimate you can see education gets a nice discount. > I was talking to the Head this morning, and it seems he might be amenable > to > looking at Open Source as a replacement, particularly as the school is > quite > small and doesn't have an actual ICT budget at all. > So that tells me the ICT dept/equipment is very small and doesn't warrant a budget. How many units are we talking? > What I was thinking was, are there any folks who might be able to > voluntarily come along at some time in the future (I don't know when their > MS licences are up for renewal) to do an evaluation of how, what and when > and how much it might cost and the long-term cost savings? > MS licenses up for renewal? What do you mean? _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug