Hello Everyone!

[sebastian at when.com]

Hi Brandon,

first of all, welcome here ;). As you may have noticed, it's quite calm 
here - hopefully, this will change in the future...

Unfortunately, I don't have any numbers related to the costs caused by 
Microsoft software used in the educational sector. I have this link [1], 
which bundles some arguments to convince people in school - it has been 
written by the K12LTSP project, which is also working on an educational 
solution based on Fedora (we still need to discuss how to get those 
efforts together - I still need a message from Warren).

In the meantime, I will do some research, but I'm not very optimistic to 
find numbers about the costs...

Best Regards,
Sebastian

[1] 
http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Dealing_With_Uncooperative_Tech_Staff


Brandon Thomas wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I am Brandon Thomas, a Systems Developer & Web Administrator.  I had a 
> few years of experience in working in a school district while I was 
> still in High School and the district I worked in was really reliant on 
> MS software.  I'm interested in this group to see if there isn't a type 
> of movement we can start within the U.S. Educational system to shift 
> them to Fedora (or other linux distros) to reduce costs for districts 
> and the whole educational system itself. 
> Does anyone have access to any financial information in regards to a 
> districts costs in usage of M$FT products annually? I think it would be 
> very interesting to see a break down of how much a district uses for all 
> of their M$FT licenses (Office, the OS, user-licenses, Server OS's, etc.)
> Here's to the hoping of a successful SIG!
> BT
> 
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