Does this article have a faint air of unreality about it... > Eventually, he added, the city will have to purchase > software from the company, but he said it would be a > "minuscule" expense. < snip > > Meffert estimated the city will save $100 million by > accepting "the gift" of Microsoft's help and software.
So $100M is "minuscule" ??? let's face it ... assuming that they install W2K Server, then the city will be faced with "upgrading" to XP server in the future, and of course will need to purchase "support" contracts for all the stuff that they are getting free today. The idea here is that if M$ give away $100M today then they will get it back in the future ... and of course can write off the "gift" against current income, thus reducing their taxes. > The news comes one week after the administration canceled > a $1.5 million contract awarded last year to modernize the > Police Department's record-keeping. Meffert, who has been > working for weeks on the Microsoft deal, recommended the > contract cancellation after saying the job could be done > for less than $100,000. But of course they will probably need to buy a whole slew of new PC's to run this new MS software on so I'd guess it's pigs to the trough for the cities favorite PC source... Ah, but that expense is probably in a different budget... Edmund Cramp -- http://www.emgsrus.com/graffiti.htm > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and NOLA.com > Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 11:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [brlug-general] Check out this page on NOLA.com > > > Dear BRLUG: > > Kory Wnuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) thought you would be interested > in this item from NOLA.com. > > http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/newsstory/o_mic > rosoft16.html > > Kory Wnuk says: > Wha...wha..what!? It appears that NO is taking a major step > backwards. It would be interesting to see the agreement between > NO and M$. > > ______________________________ > Want more news and info from NOLA.com? > Subscribe to My Newsletters and get > FREE e-mail updates delivered to your inbox. > > http://www.nola.com/info/subscribe.html > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
