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Changing software purchase models
Computerworld has published an interesting story about computers rolling out to schools.
The NSW department of education has announced that it will install OpenOffice, on 41,000 computers due to be distributed to schools across the state by the end of 2008. They will also downgrade every new computer it buys from Vista to Windows XP.
The report notes that "This incurred an additional expense in the short term, he says, but was less expensive over the life of the computer. The move is less a backlash against Microsoft and more recognition that the purchasing model for software in educational institutions is changing."
It seems as if somebody in NSW is wide awake and noticed that the world of ICT is changing very fast. Good on them. I wonder if my Deparment of Education has taken note?
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