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UK Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
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Khairil Yusof
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2005-05-11 09:54 AM
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Research, carried out by the British Educational Communications and Technology Association (BECTA), concluded that primary schools could cut computer costs by nearly half if they stopped buying, operating and supporting products from software vendors such as Microsoft, according to the Times Educational Supplement.
The panel of educational IT specialists heard that open source software offered lower support, hardware and software costs, and also discussed perceived barriers to open source take-up.
Source: ZDNet UK
