A New Zealand publication called Stuff looks at the use of Novell/SUSE Linux by the New Zealand Education Ministry. "The Education Ministry has signed an 18-month software licensing deal with Novell New Zealand, the ministry's first deal to provide open source software to schools. It includes Novell's SUSE distribution of the Linux desktop operating system. The Novell deals lets schools buy software for the same cost as Microsoft products, about $99 per product per server for a year-long licence. The ministry's senior ICT consultant, Douglas Harre, says it is meant to equalise prices of Microsoft and Novell products."

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