Microsoft Vista and Office 2007: Interim report

[CyberNerd]

http://publications.becta.org.uk/download.cfm?resID=28199

[Quackers]

I'm sorry where the HELL do they get there info from? I always thought Becta was a group of monkeys. They claim a typical Primary School will cost £4000 to move to Office 2007, and £26,000 for a typical high school?

 

How many primary schools do you know with 130 workstations or 800 workstations in a "typical" high school. ?

[tosca925]

We have 790 workstations in our secondary school, but we have no plans whatsoever to roll out VIsta. Come to think of it around 200 of our PC's wont run it.

[CyberNerd]

In purely licensing costs of Office 2k3 we spent over £18k

That does not count the cost of training, deployment and upgrades to hardware other licensing costs or compatibility problems.

 

I'd say £26k was far less than we spent in total.

[woody]

Cybernerd, how many office licenses did you buy? Either you have a lot of workstations, or you were overcharged for your licenses.

 

Point taken though regarding upgrades / training etc.

[CyberNerd]

We have 650 Machines, but for reasons unbeknown to me we have only 550 licenses ? IIRC ramesys chucked some cals into the deal as well.

[woody]

Ah right - so you do have a large number of pcs.

 

We have maybe 250 including laptops here.

 

That explains your upgrade costs.