Vista: Costs limit Education Dept deployment
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| After more than eight months of beta testing Microsoft Windows
| Vista, licensing and implementation costs have stymied mass
| adoption at the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET).
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| DET has one of the largest IT infrastructures in the country with
| 1.3 million users spread across 2,500 locations. Its desktop fleet
| consists of 250,000 devices of which 160,000 are personal computers.M
| acs make up 15 percent to 20 percent of the total, and are more
| common in primary schools.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Vista_Costs_limit_Education_Dept_deployment/0,130061733,339272347,00.htm
Related, from Australia:
Office 2007 may be Microsoft's Titanic: former Government IT boss
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| Bill Gates has been talking up Office 2007 ahead of its business launch
| on November 30. However, the recently departed deputy CIO of one of
| Australia's biggest government Microsoft sites believes introducing
| the new version of Microsoft Office may be the company's biggest
| ever disaster.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7234/53/
Feds assess open source
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| Federal government use of open-source software will be examined to assess
| how many agencies have adopted Linux and other systems.
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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20553874%5E15441%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
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