Not turning this too much into a political thread, but Brown has done the first right thing by stopping the construction of 'super' Casino's in the UK.
On topic. Good for them but the cost of training vastly outweighs the cost of buying an OS licence once every 5 years. Linux for servers and the IT department but not for the average overpaid joe who works for the council/government. The sixth form I am at bought 7 licences for server 2003 for their servers, and then bought 3 more for the next 3 servers (now have 10 servers for a school with 1600 students and 600nodes. :eek