“WHEN a college at Australia’s first university to connect to
the Internet decided it wanted to give its own students the same
access as the rest of Australia, there was only one style of
operating system to fit the bill. And the process is part of a
worldwide grass-roots movement to produce graduates who are capable
of using more than the dominant operating system, Microsoft
Windows.”
“Trinity College at Melbourne University has been successfully
running an internal network to support about 250 staff and students
on the back of various Free Unix open-source operating systems
since 1996. Careful planning and implementation resulted in uptime
and low total cost of ownership that would be the envy of many
commercial installations. The average total annual budget,
including staff wages, software, hardware, maintenance, training
and traffic costs, is less than $100,000.”