Hi David, select does give very generous discounts, canty uni will be under a similar deal, I'll do some digging ;-)
Wasn't there a country overseas that was going to renew their m$ agreement and was looking at open-source options because m$ had put the price up 100's of %? might be a good case to present, when m$ has a stranglehold on you like that. jeremyb. > From: David Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/03/13 Wed PM 03:06:38 GMT+12:00 > To: clug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: ChCh Press Tue March 12th- re: OPENZ letter > > Thanks very much, Nick - but we're (by we, I mean Openz) by no means > giving up!! Have no fear. In fact, I spoke to the Rt. Hon. Pete > Hodgson at the "Innovate" conference last week. He put me on to Neil > McKay, the head of IndustryNZ, and his staff who have the task of > developing some of the e-gov't policy. As it happens, > the staffers I talked to were VERY interested in our proposal, and we > will be conducting further talks. I'm just interested in hearing more > (Jeremy B?) about the "G2000 Preferential Select Agreement" between > Microsoft and the NZ Gov't and a few large corporates like Air NZ and (I > believe) the CHEs... They apparently get something like a 60-80% > discount on MS stuff - but is it exclusive? I suspect so. That would > certainly explain the gov't's reluctance to do anything "drastic" like > approve the use of a non MS system. > > Regards, > > Dave > > > On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 15:53, Nick Elder wrote: > > Well good on you for trying Dave! > > > > > > http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,1131577a1896,FF.html > -- > ** David Lane, Director - Egressive Limited * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** > ** PO Box 24162, Christchurch, NZ * www.egressive.com * 025 229 8147 ** > ** Open Source: software for the discerning palate * www.openz.org ** > >
