DFS wrote:
Terry Porter wrote:
DFS wrote:
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Microsoft on the outer of schools funding
What a joke, from a joke. The entire education system of
nearly every country in the world runs Microsoft Windows,
But they are learning from that monumental mistake
Microsoft has always offered great deals to educational
institutions and students. Offer good products and get young
people using and learning them, and you'll create lifetime
customers.
and has paid MS billions and billions through the years.
Sadly (for Microsoft) the recession is putting an end to
that little scam.
A little bit, here and there. Hardly worth mentioning,
actually, though Roy Spamowitz can get a good 100
posts/reposts out of a small school district going with Linux.
There's a great value to being already in place/entrenched
when the competition comes nosing around. It's at least as
costly - and often much more so - to replace Windows as it is
to upgrade it. See the Munich Germany Linux fiasco for a good
example; they can't replace Windows - they have too many
custom apps in place that would have to be totally redeveloped
- so they're keeping a good number of Windows systems.
http://www.certmag.com/read2.php?in=3751
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Linux Desktop Education Deployments Planned in 29 States
Published 2008-11-07
Edmonton, Alberta — Nov. 4
Omni and Userful announced that more than 50 academic
institutions from 29 U.S. States and 10 countries worldwide have
signed up to deploy Multi-station SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktops
through the “Free the Penguins” education initiative.
Originally launched in September, “Free the Penguins” provides
customers with a low-cost, high-performance alternative to
stand-alone Windows desktops and thin clients for computer labs,
classrooms and libraries.
Omni, Userful and Novell have agreed to extend this initiative
until the end of 2008 in response to extremely strong uptake from
schools in the U.S., Canada, Australia, South America, Europe and
Africa. Tough economic conditions have led more universities,
colleges and K-12 school districts to consider the hardware,
maintenance, space and electricity savings of Multi-station SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktops.
Using this strategy, customers can convert existing stand-alone
Windows desktops, which spend most of the day idle, into Linux
desktops with up to 10 independent, full-featured stations that
consist of just a monitor, USB keyboard and mouse.
“While customers plan to deploy their free desktops in a wide
variety of areas —computer labs, classrooms, libraries, outreach
sites, VOIP labs, help-desk areas — the No. 1 reason why they are
considering Linux instead of Windows, Mac OS X or thin clients is
cost,” said Trevor Poapst, director of global marketing at Omni.
“Few education customers, particularly in these tough economic
times, will say no to a strategy that will allow them to deploy
over twice as many desktops for the same budget.”
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