Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: > 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.
The United Kingdom. All Govt. Depts. now have to demonstrate that the there is a financial reason for ordering commercial software and the tender documents have to specify a task, not a trademark. They are about half way through doing a three month trial of Linux desktops for the entire Police force. 60,000+ machines when successfully proven. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23778.html South Korea. The Korean government is to buy 120,000 copies of Hancom Linux Deluxe this year, enough to switch 23 percent of its installed base Microsoft user to Open Source equivalents. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/14/205204 > 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
