WOW! I just sent a message to the editor. I just had to!
On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 12:10, Edmund Cramp wrote:
> 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 $100,000.
>
> But of course they will probably need to buy a whole slew of new PC's to run
> this new MS software on so I'd guess it's pigs to the trough for the cities
> favorite PC source... Ah, but that expense is probably in a different
> budget...
>
> Edmund Cramp
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 11:29 AM
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> > Subject: [brlug-general] Check out this page on NOLA.com
> >
> >
> > Dear BRLUG:
> >
> > Kory Wnuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) thought you would be interested
> > in this item from NOLA.com.
> >
> > http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/newsstory/o_mic
> > rosoft16.html
> >
> > Kory Wnuk says:
> > Wha...wha..what!? It appears that NO is taking a major step
> > backwards. It would be interesting to see the agreement between
> > NO and M$.
> >
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