On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Orlando Andico wrote: > considering that microsoft is giving a 90% discount on office and > windows on the people's PC... i can hardly see the value proposition > of pushing for an OSS solution which the teachers won't appreciate > anyway.
90% discount -- you still pay 10%... Now assuming for 10,000 PCs, Windows XP Professional retail cost of P9,200 is still P9.2 Million too much. How many computers are we talking about? Last I remember DepEd bough 1 PC for every public school and that was about 25,000 PCs...(correct me please if I'm mistaken)... -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
