Re: [seul-edu] Typical costs paid by school districtsfor software?

["Chris Hobbs" <chobbs@silvervalley.k12.ca.us>]

Hi David,

Schools here in California have the opportuinty to buy as part of a
consortium, which allows small schools like mine to purchase MS, Apple,
and Filemaker software as though we were buying in the 10,000+ license
range, which is a real savings. I feel sorry for the
suck^H^H^H^Hcustomers that must pay full boat for things like Office or
the NT OS. 

Anyway, to make life easy on you, have a look at:

http://ca-soft.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/pricing.htm

This is where we do all of our ordering for these three vendors'
products. The prices are actually good enough that when we recently
purchased 60 new NT workstations, I had the vendor ship them bare and
purchased NT licenses on our own.

Chris Hobbs
Silver Valley Unified School District

"Culp, David" wrote:
> 
> I have been hard at work on a web site which will become  a Linux help site
> featuring public help forums, discussions, tutorials, reviews, links,
> software etc.....  One of the areas of the site is a public
> editorial/opinion area where people can submit editorial/opinion pieces and
> give people the chance to discuss it.  You can preview the site at
> http://www.thelinuxgurus.org .  It has some formatting problems right now,
> hopefully nothing major and the site looks OK in your browser.  If I work
> really, really hard I can even hit my target opening date of Monday,
> December 20th.
> 
> Anyway, I was going to write the first editorial piece tonight.  I wanted to
> do a piece on getting Linux into schools. I was wanting to cost compare the
> typical cost of software (OS and support software) of Windows vs. Linux.  I
> know our school districts pays whatever the OEM who builds the systems pays
> for Windows NY.  Which I figure to be $50-$90.00.  However, I am not sure
> how much they pay for MS Office, every system in the district (about 7,000 I
> believe) has MS Office 97 on it with Word, Outlook, Access, Powerpoint,
> Excel etc....  I do know they buy a license that lets them install MS Office
> on a certain number of "seats", currently I am figuring a costs of about
> $100.00 per license for MS Office.
> 
> Thanks for everyones help.
> 
> David Culp