dissabte, de maig 07, 2005

Ditching Microsoft Could Save Education Millions

ElvenMonkey writes The Times Education Supplement has published the results of a BECTA (British Educational Communications and Technology Association, the Government's ICT agency) study, to be published next week, into the TCO of using Microsoft products compared to using Open Source products. The report shows an average saving of 24% per computer in schools using Open Source over those using Microsoft systems. Now if only the government wasn't insistent on locking schools into using Microsoft in arguably illegal ways.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/06/133233&from=rss