ARTICLE: Every AZ student to get Microsoft Office

[Alan Dayley]

You mis-understand.  For example, according to the SFB press release 
(http://www.sfb.state.az.us/sfb/sfbdoc/press.stm), the Cox Communication 
portion of the contract is $27.9 million over 4 years.  I don't know how the 
connection fees and other parts of the $172 million total are spread out but 
that is not the total for just one year.

It is still too much for a system COMPLETELY dependent on network connection 
and it has way too many "cooks in the soup" for my comfort.

The link above has addresses for snail mail and email, though complaining now 
may be too late, now that the deal is done.  Funny how we, the paying public, 
only learn about these things AFTER the contracts are signed.  :^(

Alan

On Wednesday 29 August 2001 08:42 pm, you wrote:
> Please remember that this model is not 172 Million one time deal this is
> going to be
> spent YEARLY!!!
>
>
> Greg
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Brown <kevin_brown@qwest.net>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 7:42 PM
> Subject: Re: ARTICLE: Every AZ student to get Microsoft Office
>
> > OK, time to find out who my Representative in congress is, and the state
>
> senate
>
> > and start complaining.  I keep hearing excuses about how the schools
> > can't afford to do the basics of RRR (reading, writing, arithmatic) and
> > then the
>
> AZ
>
> > school board turns around and blows $172 Million of taxpayer money on
> > Monoposoft.
> >
> > Lucas Vogel wrote:
> > >  <<Massive ASP deal called 'unprecedented'  Computerworld News &
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> Features
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> > > Story.url>>
> > >
> > >  http://computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO63338,00.html
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> > >    Massive ASP deal called 'unprecedented' Computerworld News &
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