Re: Major interview

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

We puchased before the sale as well.  When you look at what StarOffice
can do, it's well worth the $300 per school license fee.  Now that it is 
going to be "free" it's even better.

One school in my area (university high school), just "leased" a new
computer lab (just the hardware, with NT 4 and office 97), 32 PII-450MHz 
compaqs (don't know the rest of the specs, but they are low end, maybe
128MB ram, 8GB hd), and 32 Imacs, they are paying $45,000USD per year.

Can you guess how many YEARS the lease is for???


1?
2?
3?
4?
Nope, FIVE YEARS!

This is typical of the local school district.  They have not done many
site licenses or even district licenses since it would mean that the TWO 
IT departments would be using eachothers budgets (one IT is for
student/teacher computers, the other is administraton computers).

They paid more on office+Windows 3.x licenses per lab then we spent
building the computer lab at corbett elementary school (Total so far is
about $10K, going to almost $20K USD as soon as we do the new serverside
setup, moving everything to X terminals, switched 10BaseT to the desktop
and an Application server).

			Harry

On Sat, 4
Sep 1999, Kathleen Weaver wrote:

> > At sun.com I'm sure I read that star office is now free and has become open
> > source.
> 
> Hmm, we bought before the sale.  The sun site does say you pay for support.  I
> assume, but may be wrong, that we still get support.  I'll have to check.
> 
> --
> Kathleen Weaver
> Grad Student, Computer Science
> University of North Texas
>