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Our thanks to all those who helped out and were involved in so many different ways! The Ndiyo legacy lives on in the ultra-thin-client work at its spin-off DisplayLink, at Plugable, at NoPC and elsewhere...
TES report: Open Source software could save UK schoolsmillions
An official study of the impact of using open source software in UK schools is coming soon...
An interesting preview
of the BECTA report appears
in this week's Times Educational Supplement. It says, in
part,
"Primary schools could cut their
computer costs by nearly half if they stopped buying, operating and
supporting products from the world’s largest
software company, government research has found.
Secondaries could also slash their information technology overheads
by a quarter if they moved away from Microsoft and other commercial
programs, according to an analysis carried out by the British
Educational Communications and Technology Association, the
Government’s ICT agency.
The findings could undermine Microsoft’s hold on
the education market, but they raise the prospect of millions of
pounds of savings for British schools and colleges which spend
around £1 billion a year on ICT.