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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Matt on Saturday 03 Oct 2009 04:08 : \____
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>>> JeffM wrote:
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>> Microsoft probably prepares an EDGI pack for that school
>>>>> as we speak. :-)
>>>> I had to look that one up.
>>>> For others equally ignorant: Education and Government Incentive
>>>> Hey, it's one letter shorter then "bribe" or "graft".
>>>>
>>>> I'm reminded of Ballmer's infamous trip to Munich.
>>>> The City Fathers said that
>>>> after all his price cuts, the M$ "solution" would have been cheaper
>>>> (apparently on a very short time horizon)
>>>> but they still told him to pound sand.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://iowa.gotthefacts.org/011607/8000/PX08562.pdf
>>> http://boycottnovell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/px08562.pdf
>>> (((((
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:17 AM
>>>> The goal of this project is to provide a mechanism for emerging markets to
>>>> build a rich, active, legal ecosystem around PC computing, and at the same
>>>> time, make computers with Microsoft Windows preinstalled more affordable,
>>>> especially in the education segment. Example scenario: The government of
>>>> "X" is advocating using open source for all government-funded computers in
>>>> order to keep "X" dollars inside the country and save the taxpayers
>>>> millions of dollars. They are therefore looking at rolling out 50,000 PCâs
>>>> with Linux to all their K-12 schools and run StarOffice for free or a
>>>> locally-produced package that they can purchase for $5/desktop. After
>>>> extensive selling by the local MS account team, including the country GM,
>>>> to convince them of the higher vatue, lower TCO, and overall advantages of
>>>> the Windows-based eco-system in their country, the government still
>>>> maintains that while there might be some premium attached to our software,
>>>> itâs not enough to justify the investment and they will stick with their
>>>> plan to go open source across all schools. In order to compete more
>>>> effectively against Linux and other providers on these deals, we can now
>>>> leverage the Education and Government Incentive [EDGI] program to help tip
>>>> the scales to MS in the deal. After engaging the regional team. the region
>>>> may use funds to provide services and/or rebates to the customer with the
>>>> following limitation: Not to exceed the estimated Windows royalties
>>>> recognized by MS from the OEM selling the PCâs to the customer (in the
>>>> example, 50,000 PCâs at approxo $100/PC for OEM Windows XP Professional
>>>> would result in a maximum of $5M for the individual deal). Bottom line do
>>>> our best to show the great value of our software to these customers and
>>>> ensure we get paid for it under NO circumstances lose against Linux before
>>>> ensuring we have used this program actively and in a smart way.
>>> )))))
>>
>> Some of the exhibits (about 6 in total) have detailed tables of deployments
>> of StarOffice and GNU/Linux that Microsoft 'killed' with EDGI. This includes
>> an estimated # of seats.
>
>
> I don't remember seeing those. If you have the specifics at hand, it
> might save people some time and shed some more light.
>
> I don't think anybody can understand the future course of the software
> market without knowing about EDGI or something similar, whether real or
> hypothetical. It indicates that the future of MS Client software is
> /dumping/, probably followed by open-sourcing and a support-based model,
> possibly even FOSSification.
Scroll down here < http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/16/edgi-linux-compete-squad/ > for 'case studies' (anti-FOSS/Linux).
This one is better:
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/04/microsoft-edgi-secrets/
I took screenshots of the table and extracted some text.
>> The take-home message is that Microsoft has business intelligence for seeing
>> who migrates to FOSS, then 'bribing' whoever necessary away from FOSS. It's
>> like a totalitarian regime versus dissidence.
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