Chris Rowson wrote:
Hey Nik,
I don't dispute savings in the SME arena mate. But I'm more interested
in the processes by which large, corporate and public sector
organisations can save money.
I work in public sector IT, and I feel somewhat like I'm banging my
head against a brick wall
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/05/04/tory_opensource/
This is pretty interesting though...
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norman wrote:
...My grandson, a windows user,
bought a Freecom Digital TV DVB-T USB Stick Freeview receiver, plugged
it in and off he went, no problem [SNIP]
Norman I think you're pointing to something very important here. I
started to make the mental shift towards Open Source/Linux when a
I would like to raise another point relevant to all UK citizens. We all,
in one way or another, pay taxes a fair proportion of which gets spent
on education. Thus, if schools could be persuaded to change to Ubuntu,
by how much would our taxes be reduced or cash released for other
beneficial things
On 5/6/07, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to raise another point relevant to all UK citizens. We all,
in one way or another, pay taxes a fair proportion of which gets spent
on education. Thus, if schools could be persuaded to change to Ubuntu,
by how much would our taxes be
snip
You may accuse me of being Political but then, isn't this freedom thing
that Linux users preach about, a Political philosophy?
Doesn't the French National Assembly run on Linux (possibly Ubuntu)?
I think I read recently that there is a scheme in France to give new
university
On 5/6/07, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to raise another point relevant to all UK citizens. We all,
in one way or another, pay taxes a fair proportion of which gets spent
on education. Thus, if schools could be persuaded to change to Ubuntu,
by how much would our taxes be
big snip
I and many others agree with you. Have you heard of Edubuntu?
http://www.edubuntu.org/ - it's an OS, based on Ubuntu, that is
specifically catered to schools and classrooms.
Yes I have heard of Edubuntu and understand its purpose.
The Ubuntu UK team have some information on our
You should lookinto things like SODA
Hi Nik,
I've been looking for some info on SODA, and although it's referenced
in quite a few places, I can't find the 'home' of the project.
I did however find this document which outlines an open source
deployment to an enterprise organisation:
I added it here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LinuxAndOSSResearchAndAdvocacy where
I've been trying to document any evidence of the value of OSS to
businesses.
Chris thank you for your comments Ive been moving SMEs from Window
Servers to OSS servers for near on 8 years now if your
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