[Toolserver-l] Windows toolserver

[James Hare]

There will probably be religious controversies if Wikimedia sponsors a
Windows toolserver, so our best bet is to find a third party who is willing
to put up with the costs.

On Feb 7, 2008 6:02 PM, River Tarnell <river at wikimedia.org> wrote:

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> S> Well, I was just surprised that MS would sell a copy of Windows Server
> S> 2003 and MS SQL Server to a non-profit for, I think, less than they
> S> would sell Vista and Office . . . to that same non-profit.  Or do
> S> their non-server products also give discounts to nonprofits?
>
> i did not quote prices for Vista or Office because it didn't seem
> relevant (i don't think we want to provide a server for people to
> produce Powerpoint slides on).  you can search the entire list of
> available products at http://www.techsoup.org/, which includes desktop
> Windows (at least XP, i didn't check Vista), Office, and a lot of
> other software.
>
> S> Sure, quite possibly -- I'm just saying that it seems like a bad idea
> S> to spend money belonging to either the Wikimedia Foundation or any of
> S> its local chapters on a new OS if you have don't have reason to
> S> believe it will actually give any benefit to Wikimedia users.
>
> the entire point of this discussion was to find out whether it will
> provide a benefit to users (by producing more tools).  that is why i
> asked people to refrain from discussing whether or not we should
> considering deploying Windows; there's no point doing that until we
> can see an actual need for it.
>
>        - river.
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