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On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Terry Hill wrote:
2010/1/25 Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>:.. is on the front-page of slashdot today. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/01/25/0230231 There are some intersting comments about hoe Microsoft gets paid whether a school uses MS or not... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.htmlIt's an interesting read - and just goes to show - they're using 4 servers instead of the 48 "normally" used in NZ schools. Just powering the units in a typical NZ school must be expensive, let alone all those copies of m$ server...
I'd not read too much into that - if you read some of the comments it sounds like it's a "standard design", so probably used in much larger schools than this one.
And as one poster pointed out, you can use a whole rack just for the telephone system and building patch panel, then there's UPSs, etc.
The intersting bit to me is that the NZ Govt have to pay Microsoft whether they use MS or not... Someone somewhere has a *lot* of lobbying power in the NZ govt....
Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html