블룸버그 뉴욕시장의 퇴임과 함께 뉴욕시 관공서에서 블룸버그통신 단말기도 자취를 감출 것으로 보입니다
블룸버그 뉴욕시장이 올해말 퇴임하면 그가 무료로 뉴욕시내 각관공서에서 이용토록했던 블룸버그통신 단말기 이용이 중단될 것으로 보인다고 뉴욕포스트가 오늘[8일] 보도했습니다.
블룸버그 뉴욕시장은 자신이 취임한 이후 자신이 소유하고 있는 경제전문통신사 블룸버그통신 단말기 60대를 뉴욕시의회와 시산하 관공서에 설치해 누구든지 무료로 이용토록 했었습니다
그러나 블룸버그시장이 올해말 임기를 끝내고 퇴임하면 무료사용이 중단되며 단말기 한대에 1년에 2만달러씩, 60대 전체를 사용하려면 1년에 백20만달러의 예산이 소요돼 후임시장이 누가되든 블룸버그 단말기이용을 중단할 것이 확실시됩니다
뉴욕시는 블룸버그시장 취임전인 2002년 이전에 블룸버그통신 단말기 25대를 이용했으며 블룸버그취임이후 뉴욕시의회와 시장실등에 단말기 35대를 더 설치했으나 블룸버그시장은 2002년이후 뉴욕시로부터 일체의 사용료롤 받지 않았었습니다
원본출처 http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/terminal_ator_mike_to_yank_city_NX5ledkXbt7R9EgZDy0twI
The free Bloomberg Terminals the mayor brought with him to City Hall will be leaving when he does, The Post has learned.
If Mayor Bloomberg’s successor wants to use the data-rich computers, taxpayers will have to pay the going rate of $20,000 per terminal per year.
With 60 terminals throughout the government — including 35 at City Hall — the tab would come to $1.2 million a year.
A spokesman for Bloomberg LP, the mayor’s information-services firm, said the fees for 25 of the terminals, which were already being used by the city’s financial departments, were waived when he took office in 2002.
That’s because Bloomberg wanted to add 35 terminals for his inner circle at City Hall, and paid for those himself to avoid creating a conflict of interest, officials said.
“The city was a paying client before Mike Bloomberg became mayor, and to remove any possible conflicts, the company agreed to provide free terminal use as long as he remained in office,” said spokesman Ty Trippet.
“We don’t expect that would continue after he leaves office” in December.
Trippet didn’t respond when asked why Bloomberg wouldn’t continue donating the terminals to the city.
The city Comptroller’s Office, its Finance Department and the mayor’s budget office were paying customers before Bloomberg’s election, using their 25 terminals to crunch financial information.
The “Bloomberg Boxes,” as the terminals have come to be known, are found in banks and on trading desks around the world.
Using six monitor displays, they offer subscribers real-time market data and a way to submit trades electronically, as well as news and Web browsing.
Bloomberg added 35 of the terminals for his “bullpen” at City Hall, where he and his senior aides work.
“The economic-development and budget teams people use it for financial data,” said his spokesman, Marc La Vorgna.
“I use it for its news-aggregation capabilities. It has better real-time news delivery and aggregation abilities than anything I’ve ever used. Some people just use it for the dual-monitor feature, which can really help your productivity.”
The next mayor will have to determine whether the terminals are worth spending taxpayer dollars to maintain.
Bloomberg LP’s more than 315,000 terminal subscribers account for 85 percent of its revenues.
Last year, the company took in $7.9 billion while holding to its policy of not giving discounts for multiple accounts.
Two months ago, The Post disclosed that reporters for Bloomberg News, the journalism arm of Bloomberg LP, were accessing terminal log-in information to snoop on traders at Goldman Sachs.
Officials at Bloomberg LP confirmed the reporters had used the terminals for years to monitor when subscribers were logged on and what types of sites they were looking at.
After a complaint by Goldman, Bloomberg LP cut off reporters’ access to private client data and Bloomberg News editor in chief Matt Winkler apologized, calling it an “inexcusable” error.