Re: [school-discuss] [IIEP] BECTA report about free software next week (fwd)

[Miles Berry <mberry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The report was published yesterday.
See http://www.becta.org.uk/corporate/press_out.cfm?id=4681
for further details.

Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> [...] In a report to be published next week, obtained by The TES, Becta
> will highlight schools which have turned to free software instead of
> the market leader’s products.
>
> The association analysed costs at 33 schools which use paid-for
> software, and compared them with 15 which have pioneered the use of
> free programs, known as open source, and the pared-down hardware to run
> them.
>
> Average costs, including software, hardware and support costs, were 24
> per cent less per computer in secondaries using open source.
>
> http://www.tes.co.uk/2094985
> http://slashdot.org/articles/05/05/06/133233.shtml?tid=146&tid=109
>
> - Knut Yrvin


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