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On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 09:36:26PM +0000, Henry Bremridge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:35:03PM +0000, Paul Sutton wrote: > > Hi > > > > Just looking at the torbay council budget thing which is published on > > their website, > > > > http://www.torbay.gov.uk/index/council/financial_services/budget.htm > > > > Has details of the differnet department and budgets > > > > It seems that IT policy is effectively controlled by the DCC and the last I heard > was the regional councils are banding together to improve efficiencies: presumably > in purchase and may be in bespoke software. (Whether the policy is right or wrong > is a separate matter). Having said that the key question that this document does > not answer is the following: > > Of their IT budget of £3m, how much money do they spend on software licenses and > what software is in use. This as has been pointed out is commercially sensitive. > > I approximated the figures for Devon by finding out how many machines are licensed > for MS office; and then assuming that the MS applications license fee is £20pa; > and that the cost of the operating system is a one time cost of £20 per machine. I > have excluded costs of antivirus, firewalls etc etc > > From this my basic premise is that DCC as a whole are spending approximately an > extra £130,000 on unnecessary software. Erratum: spending £130,000 per year every year > > From google: > > The population of Devon is about 1,000,000. > The population of Torbay is about 131,000 > > > -- > Henry > Photocopies or faxes of my signature are not binding. > This email has been signed with an electronic signature in accordance with > subsection 7(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000. > Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 > Fri Jan 2 21:33:37 GMT 2009
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