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    How open source saved a school district's IT department 22/09/2007 10:08:11

    California district slashes expenses, improves productivity with open source software
    Heather Carver faced major dilemmas when she became the IT director at Windsor Unified School District in California one year ago. There was no virus protection, no data backup, and upgrading to current Microsoft technologies would have cost more than US$100,000, half of the district's IT budget. Buying security from Trend Micro to cover all seven schools would have cost US$200,000 a year.
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