Real World Savings with FLOSS at Robert Pogson

I came across a detailed article on the savings a school can have with FLOSS. Schools often have a computer teacher whose day job is to teach and occasionally to fix things. A reliable system that costs little to install and keeps on working is ideal. Linux and FLOSS do that. The totals come to $92k saving for installation and $33k per year for ten years of use. That is like several teachers’ salaries. Real money in the real world. M$ is rich enough. Would you not prefer to route that money to things that help education rather than pumping up Bill’s pension?

Total Open Source Savings for Setup – $92,675.20
Ten Year Savings – $338,667.00

The reality of these figures for Noxon Schools is that if we had Microsoft products only we would not have185 computers we would have 50 because that is all we could sustain. That is the big difference for us.

The same sorts of savings can be realized in most homes and offices, too. GNU/Linux and FLOSS are good for IT.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.