Microsoft go BOOM!
A school district in California decides to abandon Microsoft and makes an amazing switch to Microsoft’s biggest enemy: SUSE Linux. (sidenote: Microsoft has been threatening to sue SUSE Linux over intellectual property rights).
Basically, this article explains that the upgrade to Windows Vista, which is already very expensive, would mean that the school districts would also have to upgrade their hardware.
COST: over $100, 000 USD + $100 per license
Instead, the director of technology and information services, Heather Carver, chose the open source road – Novell SUSE Linux – a surprisingly smooth switch and a much better support system.
COST: $2500/school and FREE license.
The best argument Carver explains, which is really the clinching key message, is that:
“The kids think Linux is cool because it’s new, but what they’re really doing is stepping into the 21st century.”
Take that Vista.