Birmingham To Buy More, Not Less Open Source 232
K-boy writes, "Last week, the press (and Slashdot) reported that Birmingham City Council had decided to ditch its open source project because a report said its trial had cost £100,000 more than it would have cost to buy Windows. However, Techworld has discovered that the opposite is true, and the Council is actually planning to use more open source software as well as to roll out Linux in the next few years. The head of IT was interviewed and he gives a fascinating rundown of the problems he had getting open source working with his systems. More interestingly, he points out that now the trial is over and he and his staff have the technical skills, they expect to save lots of money in future by going open source. Oh, and the report's figures were based on the special rates that Microsoft gives Councils just to make sure the short-term budget look worse — £58 for a Windows license as opposed to the normal £100."
Re:*BUY* more? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Teach a man to fish... (Score:5, Funny)
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Rumors for neds (Score:1, Funny)
Do you guys ever bother to check the vlaidity of a source before you publish a fucking story.
ASSHATS!
oh dear.... (Score:3, Funny)
start the Gnome vs. KDE bun fight... 3, 2, 1...
Great news (Score:2, Funny)
Thees is bostin' nyohs! Oi main, an' all, oos Brummies 've bin pronaincing it as Leenux, and not Loinux, seence forever, loike. Way don' naid no steenkin' Moicrosoft!
Anywy, are yo mashin?
Re:Show a man the ocean (Score:1, Funny)
Then why did you procede to extend it for a paragraph?
Wait. I think Linux is the fish and FireFox is like caviar! Or maybe, Windows is the fish and IIS is the stinking pile of fish heads and guts. That makes Solaris the giant squid that wraps it's tentacles around your boat and drags you to a watery grave. And BSD is like El Niño. and
Re:Teach a man to fish... (Score:1, Funny)
the only enviroment i can see ms products make sense would be a landfill.
Hey, a computer without Microsoft is like ice cream without ketchup.