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Story: Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 13 January 2006, 11:54 PM)
Micro$oft is too expensive. Wow - what a revelation!!
This article doesn't even touch on the ROI factors, which include hiring folks for rebooting servers, apply weekly patches, crash analysis, not to mention the extra administration than would be necessary if the server side were NetWare and the desktops were Linux. Naturally, anything other than Windows is going to be more secure, reliable, and stable.
Check out the "MS (In)Security" section of www.iwantnetware.com for updated news on examples as to how this is true.
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Story: Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
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Micro$oft is too expensive. Wow - what a revelati... Anonymous -
The way ahead is simple. Just adopt OpenOffic... Anonymous -
To install software in schools that isnt... Jon -
MS file formats are the landmine buried for the ki... Olavi Petri
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Name a older Microsoft format that cant be re... Jon
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Agree with the comment above about geekw... Alan
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Microsoft got rich by a combination... Jon -
I agree with the opendocument... Anonymous
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Jon,
My college stuff on Works 3.1 Stop... jono
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Vista already has virus patches and it i... Ron Norris
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I'm in agreement that MS products a... Chris Ferguson
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Microsoft licences too expensive, say sc... 1000332296
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I agree. Macs are a much less costly option. Of co... Ron Norris
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I don't know whether the Competition beaurocrat in... Chris Goodman
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Kingsoft Office Replaces Micrsoft Office, simply Roca Haslet
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