[LINK] OSS in higher ed environment survey

[Jan Whitaker]

Fwd: [highered_update] Higher Education Update - an EdNA Online 
newsletter,  Issue 3 2004 ISSN 1449-0552, 13 February 2004

>Factors Affecting the Use of Open Source Software in Tertiary Education 
>Institutions
>http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_2/glance/index.html
>To find out the extent of use of OSS by TEIs in Australia, New Zealand and 
>the United Kingdom, a survey was sent out to technical personnel at all 
>TEIs in these countries. The results of the survey show that OSS is 
>already being used by all TEIs who responded to the survey and that the 
>major reasons for this was lower Total Cost of Ownership and freedom from 
>software vendor dependence. It is clear however that the majority of the 
>OSS software being used is in server infrastructure with a lesser amount 
>being used on normal desktop machines.
>First Monday, February 2004

JLWhitaker Associates
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
jwhit at melbpc.org.au  --  http://member.melbpc.org.au/~jwhit/whitentr.htm
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