It is a *fact* that Sirius' appointment has led to a noticeable uptake of Free Software in the Education sector.

It seems likely that the Becta procurement list appointment is some kind of 'trial run' by UK Gov, and we are likely to see Free Software vendors appearing on other lists.

It's high time the UK joined the rest of Europe in its rapid uptake of FOSS in across the Public Sector.

Europe...

Actually it changed recently..... but for the worse. It's worse now than ever. I use Yahoo weather which gets its data from weather.com. The problem with that is it's delayed a bit.