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posted by mrpg on Wednesday March 08 2017, @02:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the enough-toe-dipping,-already dept.

BGR (originally Boy Genius Report) reports

The Kerala government has made a saving of Rs 300 crore through introduction and adoption of Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) in the school education sector, said a state government official [February 26]. IT became a compulsory subject in Kerala schools from 2003, but it was [only in 2005] that FOSS was introduced in a phased manner and started to replace proprietary software.

[...] "The proprietary version of this software would have incurred a minimum cost of Rs 150,000 per machine [$2250] in terms of [license] fee. Hence, the minimum savings in a year (considering 20,000 machines) is Rs 300 crore [$45M]. It's not the cost saving that matters more, but the fact that the Free Software [license] enables not only teachers and students but also the general public an opportunity to copy, distribute, and share the contents and use it as they wish", [said K. Anwar Sadath, executive director IT@School.]


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday March 08 2017, @02:51AM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 08 2017, @02:51AM (#476285) Journal

    I mean, looking to the Munich case, the result is: Microsoft moved the regional headquarters into the rebel city.
    Perhaps the Kerala government hopes for the same?
    Having some Accenture headquarters there (to advice moving back to Windows 2027) would be a bonus.

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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday March 08 2017, @04:31AM (2 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday March 08 2017, @04:31AM (#476323) Journal

    The Accenture report will, in part say "estimate savings of $[very large number], based on support cost modelling which would be true if removing proprietry software had cost $1000 per computer, per year"

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @05:16AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @05:16AM (#476339)

      The Accenture report has already come back.
      What it said was that apps should be OS-agnostic.

      The politicians have attempted to IGNORE the recommendation for which they paid so much.
      A previous submission on this topic said [soylentnews.org]

      It appears to me that the politicians had an answer in mind and wanted to work backwards to get that. They hired MSFT "partner" Accenture to do a study. That report recently came back. What is says is--surprisingly--that all software should work with ANY operating system. They recommended web-based solutions.

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      • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday March 08 2017, @06:19AM

        by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday March 08 2017, @06:19AM (#476356) Journal

        So.. Office365?

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