http://www.teledyn.com/node/564 Comments for "Venezuela saves $2.1M" en http://www.teledyn.com/node/564 <p>How would your own education ministry roll out 380,000 PCs for a total cost of about a grand a piece? Down Venuzuela way, based on some hard experience, their Ministry of Education &amp; Sport (MED) is boosting GNU among their technical and administrative staff, ramping up to run with GNU ...</p> <blockquote><p><cite class="blog-source">The ministry believes these platforms have also helped it increase the efficiency and technical expertise of its employees as well as reducing vulnerability to Internet viruses.</p> <p>MED officials believe it has saved up to 4 billion bolivares (US$2.1 million) this year by implementing open-source platforms in its data center servers...</cite></p></blockquote> <p><i class="blog-source">[ via <a title="Venezuela&#039;s Ministry of Education &amp; Sport saves US$2.1 million with open source" href="http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=23776">VHeadline.com</a> ]</i></p> http://www.teledyn.com/node/564#comments GNU public software Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:03:26 -0500 garym 564 at http://www.teledyn.com