Money better spent

Better see a return with the money that would of been spent going somewhere better,

reckon it wont thought they will find some way to make the money that would of gone to nazisoft dissapear somewhere else to never be mentioned

microsoft recommends

I once applied to a job at a special needs school. As part of their ICT plan, advised on by a Microsoft consultant (they had no ICT Technician on site, that was the job I was there for), was complete adoption of the as-yet-unreleased Vista.

This was for a school stuffed full of small-time 3rd-party custom software and hardware. The chance that the majority of it was going to be Vista compatible on any level was pretty low, a view that has been more than reinforced even after a year of Vista buyable existence.

Microsoft will say alot of things to get in the door. Luckily alot of times (and in this case) what they say isn't a really quantifiable discreet value, and that can be used against them. A bit like "Vista Ready".

It's nice to see open source getting a look in, and someone even cancelling a deal (admitting a mistake?) to do so.

Luck of the Draw

And the councils who are ahead of Newham used what vendor's software ... ? Sounds like a no-win for any software source Open or M$. The council telegraphed its intent to transfer blame when they talked about software making a big difference in their ratings. Transfer of blame would have been sillier had the council chosen Open Source, more or less being their own 'vendor', but M$ would have made much of the Open Source 'failure' had the council gone away from M$, hence the title.