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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@xavier.sa.edu.au>
  Date: 24 Apr 2001 09:58:10 +0930

Re: MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

On 24 Apr 2001 09:28:55 +0930, Matthew Geddes wrote:

> Sun are trying to do really good deals with schools at the moment. The
> figures Mark Collis mentioned are accurate.

I'm not debating that. Sun are offering amazing deals to schools at the
moment. Servers with the same price as small houses are bundled with a
bunch of SunRay's to make quite an attractive offer.

> And could be made even easier. I agree with the NT stuff you mentioned,
> there are schools paying $100 an hour for NT/2K "Consultants" and
> "Engineers" to drink coffee.

And decaf Late's for those who don't like the caffine. It's a real scam.
I think schools are going to save money in the long run by deploying
more Linux-based workstations/servers. Generally, they look after
themselves.

   - andrew

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