Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Microsoft to offer discounts to public sector
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> | Microsoft has signed a deal with Buying Solutions, the UK government's
> | public-sector procurement agency, in which the software company has
> | agreed to offer its highest level of discount to all public-sector
> | organisations in the country.
Linux steps in and offers higher discounts.
http://www.livecdlist.com
http://www.distrowatch.com
Downloading of free as in freedom not price Linux editions now available
to compete with each UK Gov sale.
Offering more value for less money in times of hard core recession
and lower tax income.
Governments urged to think again about saving tax payers money.
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> | Mark Taylor, chief executive of the Open Source Consortium, told ZDNet
> | UK on Thursday that the figure of £75m was only a "notional saving"
> | because "the values that Microsoft attribute to their software [are]
> | obvious nonsense".
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> | "No-one has been able to [find out] what is actually being spent by the
> | government on software licences," Taylor, who also heads up the
> | open-source services company Sirius, added. "It's nonsense giving a
> | notional saving without revealing what the actual cost is."
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> | Taylor also criticised the government's open-source policy document,
> | saying: "It's not an action plan because an action plan has specific
> | actions, a deadline and someone responsible for achieving them." He said
> | that "even a mild move to free software in the UK public sector would
> | save £600m a year".
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> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39649690,00.htm
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> Recent:
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> Tories consider IT contract cap
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> | Instead of awarding long-term contracts to large IT companies they could
> | open up the procurement process to smaller firms using "open source"
> | software.
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7853086.stm
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> Tories Back Open Source Software...They Say
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> | Fine words butter no cyber-parsnips, of course, and I'll believe all
> | this when I see it. Still, it's a start, and it would be good to see
> | Labour finally admitting that its megalomaniacal, monolithic computing
> | projects are failures, and adopting the decentralised, distributed
> | approach the Tories are advocating here.
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> http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs
index.cfm?entryid=1791&blogid=14
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> Tories consider open source and limit on size of government IT projects
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> | Shadow chancellor George Osbourne is considering a report that
> | recommends putting a £100m spending cap on government IT contracts and
> | opening up procurement to small firms using open source software.
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> http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/open-source-business
news/index.cfm?newsid=13011
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> UK Councils to explore Open Source benefits
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> | - First-ever UK conference on open source software in local government
> | announced - As new US Govt looks at open source, UK called upon to wake
> | up to opportunity
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> http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/11144.html
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