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Mr Harding made this Freedom of Information request to Macclesfield Borough Council
The request was successful.
From: Mr Harding
31 March 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please can you provide a breakdown of the Microsoft licenses
purchased (including the amounts paid in total) for 2008-09,
2007-08 and 2006-07 financial years.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Harding
From: Poynton, Andrew
24 April 2009
Dear Mr Harding,
I refer to your request for information under the FOI and enclose a
spreadsheet which the information requested.
Please note that responsibility for Freedom of Information no longer
resides with Legal Services and is now managed by the Information and
Records Management Office, whose contact details can be found below. Any
further electronic requests should be made to [email address]
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Yours faithfully
Andrew Poynton
Legal Officer
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William Old left an annotation ( 5 May 2009)
If this area is of interest to you, you might wish to look at the London Borough of Newham - they were all set to move their entire IT infrastructure to a Linux-based architecture, but following a "don't let it happen at any cost" intervention from Microsoft HQ in Redmond (USA), they inked a deal that was unprecedented in the UK, however I think you will find that, as a consequence, they will claim commercial sensitivity to prevent the release of the information.
See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/09/... and earlier stories for the background (and the unanswered questions...).
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D Thomas left an annotation ( 4 May 2009)
Strangely they only mention OS licenses, though the request was for "Microsoft licenses". Particularly curious as they appear to have returned the information using Microsoft Office.
It would be very interesting to see comparative info for other authorities.
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