All Prices with a MS Select Agreement Windows NT = GBP 110 Win2K Pro = GBP 90 MSO 2K = GBP 90 As for other prices. Not too sure :)
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Evans [mailto:mpe@st-peters-high.devon.sch.uk] Sent: 27 July 2001 11:25 To: mherbert@redhat.com Cc: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Licensing Costs.....
hi all
i've been asked by a journolists to come up with some atypical licensing costs for schools, to look at just the upfront savings of going open source.
Windows and Office (education licence) is approximatly £150.
So long as you can still buy Win9X and Office 2000.
i've already got figures based around 3-year managed services (cheapest NGfL 950 per seat/per annum), Red Hat / LTSP new kit £500 per seat / per annum), but like to break them down.
That £500 looks more like an outright price for everything. Rather than an annual price.
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----- Original Message ----- From: Coulton,G <coultogi01@leedslearning.net> To: 'Mark Evans' <mpe@st-peters-high.devon.sch.uk> Cc: <suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com> Sent: 27 July 2001 13:17 Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Licensing Costs..... All Prices with a MS Select Agreement Windows NT = GBP 110 Win2K Pro = GBP 90 MSO 2K = GBP 90 An annual payment of around £38 per machine gets you MS office XP, Encarta, Win 9x/2000, MS Works and one or two other significant bits of software. The catch is that schools must license every Pentium or better computer. The schools agreement also allows earlier versions to the software to be used on the less powerful Pentium machines. Upgrades are included in the agreement. Computers purchase during the annual term are automatically covered and need to be added to the seat count the following year. For convenience I am going down this route. Life is too short to go rummaging around for software upgrades from a variety of sources. I do not have the time or confidence to use Linux or Linux apps in a curriculum setting and I am not confident that I can find a technician that is familiar with the software. There is a long way to go before truly user friendly Linux software meets full cross curricular requirements. The arguments about broadening the skill base of pupils by exposing them to differing operating systems is a spurious one. The primary functions of the technology is to assist and enrich the learning experiences of the pupils and as such it out to be as 'transparent' to the user as a pen and pencil. Apart from a briefing about the salient features of the operating system no other knowledge about the quirks and bizarre caperings of **any** operating system should be needed. The monotheic rantings of Linux devotees has done little to persuade me to switch allegiance from his Billness' offerings though I am open to persuasion when the cult of Linux become more inclusive :-) Vernon Levy Linux dabbler, Windows worshipper As for other prices. Not too sure :)
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Evans [mailto:mpe@st-peters-high.devon.sch.uk] Sent: 27 July 2001 11:25 To: mherbert@redhat.com Cc: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Licensing Costs.....
hi all
i've been asked by a journolists to come up with some atypical licensing costs for schools, to look at just the upfront savings of going open source.
Windows and Office (education licence) is approximatly £150.
So long as you can still buy Win9X and Office 2000.
i've already got figures based around 3-year managed services (cheapest NGfL 950 per seat/per annum), Red Hat / LTSP new kit £500 per seat / per annum), but like to break them down.
That £500 looks more like an outright price for everything. Rather than an annual price.
-- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763
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There is a long way to go before truly user friendly Linux software meets full cross curricular requirements.
This may be because curricular requirements are expressed in terms of what is available to and known about by those who write them. There was no curriculum requirement for Web or email five years ago. Requirements now depend on what can be done with IE and MS Office.
The monotheic rantings of Linux devotees
Monotheic? Most Windows schools I know have only one operating system throughout the school, some insist firmly that no other is allowed. All Linux schools I know of have one or two other operating systems in use as well. Here we have half a dozen, all sharing the same filestore and the same web and email facilities. We have BBCs, we have Archimedes, we have NCs, we have FreeBSD hosts, we have Macs, we have Windows in three or four varieties, we're trying to work out how to configure some Sparcstations, we have diskless and non-diskless X terminals providing KDE desktops, and we may even soon put in an NT or w2k server! Monotheic? Bet we're the most polytheic school you know. -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-820527 or 07798 636725 cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk
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