Re: [Scottish] Cost of M$ in councils.

2011-01-28 Thread Colin Speirs
Hi Dan On 28 January 2011 07:24, Dan Shearer d...@shearer.org wrote: From the perception that Windows is free the line of reasoning follows that the bar for Linux is a lot higher, because Windows is compatible with everything currently in use. Thus Linux is introducing cost for no

Re: [Scottish] Cost of M$ in councils.

2011-01-28 Thread John Thomson
Hi, Just to let you know, I could do with some help compiling all the data, as some is in email, some PDF's and some in an online spreadsheet (google gocs). Also, as someone said (sorry, don't have my usual mail client and can't remember, who, I'm running from pendrive), this could be creative

Re: [Scottish] Cost of M$ in councils.

2011-01-28 Thread Colin Speirs
hey As fr the guy who said that only the IT staff would need re-trained, I have a figure, quoted from a councilor (in a related, but not identical incident) that retraining the technical support team (this is for schools) would cost in the tens of thousands., That was me quoting. The