“Microsoft has suffered further set-backs in the UK education
sector this week after Becta, the government procurement quango,
reformed its purchasing regime to break the software giant’s hold
on education, and launched a programme to get schools to adopt open
source software.“At least three open source software suppliers submitted tenders
to Becta yesterday for the £270,000 Schools Open Source
Project. The winner will spend two years building a community of
schools which uses and develops its own open source alternatives to
Microsoft software…”