<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Open Source Savings for a School District <br> <br> </b></font> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">A lot of people ask about the real savings that Open Source can bring to school districts. Noxon Schools has used Open Source software for 6 years now and so I wanted to demonstrate the actual savings and philosophy of Open Source in a real life setting.</font><br> <br> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>...<br> <br> Total Open Source Savings for Setup - $92,675.20<br> Ten Year Savings - $338,667.00</b></font> <br> <b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">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.<br> <br> </font></b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Mike Weber may be contacted<a href="mailto:mike [ at ] noxonschools [ dot ] org"> Here</a><br> Tech Coordinator Noxon School Districts</font><br> <font face="Georgia">...</font><br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://spidertools.com/oss.php";>http://spidertools.com/oss.php</a> </body> </html>