British report - free software nearly half the TCO compared to proprietary software
The research, carried out by the British Educational Communications and
Technology Association (BECTA), concluded that primary schools could
cut computer costs by nearly half if they stopped buying, operating and
supporting products from software vendors such as Microsoft, according
to the Times Educational Supplement.
http://www.becta.org.uk/corporate/publications/documents/BEC5606_Full_report18.pdf
Microsoft rubbishes the report:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39198432,00.htm
- Knut Yrvin
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