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Telstra Used Linux To Get Microsoft Discounts

Posted by timothy on from the and-we-encourage-you-to-do-the-same dept.

awful writes "Last year Slashdot ran a story about Australia's largest telco moving to Linux desktops. Turns out it was all a way to get some tasty discounts from Microsoft. The Australian is reporting that Telstra just signed a four-year deal with MS for $AU15-20 million, for 40,000 users. No figures yet on how much of a discount Telstra got, but MS might want to rethink handing back all its cash to investors if this is how they're going to do business from now on ..."

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  3. telstra suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let 'em rot in hell

  4. Maybe he _is_ from Oz? by leonbrooks · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Way to use the free market to your advantage.

    They did this. They used it to their advantage by subverting it.

    It's taken... how many years for Western Australia's largest ISP to be able to roll out its own DSLAMs into a few core exchanges? Up to that point, the only real in-the-exchange competition here was a few pathetic efforts from giants like Optus, plus literally a handful of exchanges with RequestDSL DSLAMs in them.
    --
    Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
  5. Re:Ow the Irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dood either english isn't your first language and you are having trouble comphrending or you are a troll. For your sake I hope it's just misunderstanding.