1 Oct
2013
1 Oct
'13
1:31 a.m.
James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> writes:
Basically you don't. Unless you can find a nearby school who is already running Linux and has senior staff willing to vouch for the cost savings they made etc, you aren't going to win this. Schools get MS software so cheap that the cost is unimportant, and doing what everyone else is doing is always the safest option. You need more expensive hardware to run most MS software when comparing to an equivalent Linux solution, but hardware is so cheap these days that that doesn't matter a great deal either.
IME nobody cares about license costs. What they care about is the cost of hiring someone to manage licenses / license servers and perform license compliance audits.