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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Welsh schools adopt open source email
>
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>| Major educational deal shows that open source is taking off in the
>| regional public sector, say open source consultants
>|
>| A Welsh county council has brokered a deal to provide open source email
>| to up to 40,000 pupils and teachers.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| Staff will use the new system, based on Debian Linux, to create and
>| manage new email accounts. Sirius will design and implement a solution
>| consisting of modified open source packages, including GOsa, an email
>| account management tool, and Squirrelmail, an open source email client.
> `----
>
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39282552,00.htm
>
> Our University uses the Horde Project (FOSS) for E-mail. It used to be
> Windows/Pegasus.
But look at /why/ they're using FOSS, is it cost? well, partly:
"Proprietary software came out as being significantly more
expensive, 10 things to consider mostly because of licensing
costs," said Nunn. "Clearly per-user licensing would have been
prohibitively expensive."
However, it's more about it being tried, tested and scalable:
The council, which already uses a scaled-down Suse Linux email
solution developed by Nunn, chose to continue using open source
in part because of its adaptability.
But also, and perhaps mostly, because it's open:
"I like having the freedom to see what a system is doing if open
source goes wrong, you can fix it. If a proprietary software
box goes wrong, you can't look inside," said Nunn.
Those are all the reasons why FOSS is getting into government
everywhere.
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