March 07, 2005
Total Cost of Ownership and Open Source Software in Schools
TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Research paper
by Kathryn Moyle
Department of Education and Children’s Services
South Australia
from the Introduction...
"The aim of this paper is to contribute to the shared understandings we have about the respective ICT costs that jurisdictions and schools invest in order to provide students, teachers and school communities with access to the necessary ICT infrastructure to support learning and to enable ‘connectivity’ between people and computers. Identifying costs will enable more informed discussion about what place open source software may have in schools’ and school jurisdictions’ ICT portfolios."