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Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback Martin, Rather short-sighted. Have you even tried anything outside the statis quo? Your comment suggests little or no knowledge of open source offerings, and a fear of learning something new. You might be pleasantly surprised.
[May 9, 2005, 18:40]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback In Canada, the PEEL District shool board is or has penned an agreement with SUN to replace MS-Office with StarOffice. Although not implemented yet, from all sources I have seen it seems to have been signed.
[May 9, 2005, 19:55]
Microsoft rubbishes school open source report
Talkback I can't believe this, Microsoft are well known for producing extremely unscientific reports using every trick in the book to try and lean the results in their favour (including using ridiculously small sample sizes).
[May 14, 2005, 17:36]
Microsoft rubbishes school open source report
Talkback Screwed up title, ZDNet. The report's about Open Source and non-Microsoft options, not about Microsoft so of course Microsoft's marketing complains about it.
[May 16, 2005, 10:26]
Microsoft rubbishes school open source report
Talkback As long as they can brib.err, 'coax' officials to use windows eventually, street noise doesn't matter. Yes, they can give the appearance of 'discounting' their licenses and make the civil servants appear to make smart purchases and then make up the...
[May 16, 2005, 14:17]
Microsoft rubbishes school open source report
Talkback From what i have read and belive, open source might be cheaper in the short term, but in the long term, has the potential to end up as just as expensive or even MORE expensive the MS solutions, because of the traning that has to be done.
[May 16, 2005, 16:32]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback Fear of change? Or a lack of time to embrace change? Perhaps if I didn't spend so much of my time having to produce a 300 word story to fill a space in ten to fifteen minutes, maybe I'd try to see about getting Linux installed on our servers.
[May 10, 2005, 0:55]
Microsoft rubbishes school open source report
Talkback High school kids have plenty of spare time they can use to contribute. ALL primary schools can get support from secondary school students if they would organize. They would be able to get better support if some of the secondary school students are...
[May 16, 2005, 16:57]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback ajority of offices use MS Office products OpenOffice is more compatible with older versions of MS Word than is MS Word 2003 itself. Gnumeric will handle Excel - and so on. Get hold of a copy of the OpenCD - although the Windows software on there is...
[May 10, 2005, 2:26]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback Should our head of IT decides to switch over to Linux, then that's what we would do. However, I can imagine him thinking: "It took ages for us to get the PCs and the Macs in production to speak together!
[May 10, 2005, 10:35]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback Learning a non-standard software? Sounds like the same mentality of those who shouted “get a horse” when 1 in a 1000 were choosing to try out the “new standard” .the horseless carriage. Today's “standard” is just a milestone along the highway.
[May 10, 2005, 16:44]
School WiFi panic provokes debate
Blog Comment Hi Richard, Sorry to jump into this entry as well! I totally agree that over-sensationalism of the issue helps nobody, and that the reaction of "no effect" is the natural one to prevent unnecessary panic where it isn't due.
[November 22, 2006, 13:13]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback How very amazing this result is . Look at the software you get when doing a full (LINUX-) install: applications like openoffice, scribus, gimp .webserver database compilers rich set of example sourccode
[May 9, 2005, 16:02]
Old School GSMA
Blog Comment This is a drum we've banged before, of course. It can't be banged enough, say I. The mobile operators can deliberately keep prices as high as they like, or they can try to grow the market by competing with each other to deliver good service at a...
[October 31, 2006, 13:26]
Huge Brazilian School District Gains Transparency and Collaboration With Portal
White Papers Techway is a technology company founded in 1992 and based in Sao Paolo, Brazil. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner; it has particular expertise in software solutions that enhance collaboration. The Secretary of Education in Sao Paolo, Brazil...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
A good reliable system for work or school (lightweight design)
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[September 15, 2004, 10:45]
School's a good place to start
Talkback Exam boards need to stop specifying Microsoft products in their course criteria and use more generic terms. Schools seem to have gone some way towards using OpenOffice but it's patchy and it's almost non-existent in FE Colleges.
[March 6, 2009, 16:59]
School Safety and Soundness - What About Cyber Security Events?
White Papers In this Information and Technology Age, it is everyone's duty to prepare for all of the threats that can impact the students. This preparation should include the very thing that has impacted the students most over the past two decades - technology.
[May 19, 2009, 1:18]
Oglethorpe University and Dell Add a New Chapter to School's History
White Papers Oglethorpe University's historic campus in Atlanta, Georgia blends old world charm and classic education with contemporary, innovative ideas. The University was faced with updating its technology infrastructure campus-wide to successfully blend...
[November 8, 2008, 0:01]
School District Enhances Learning and Saves on IT Costs With Latest Operating System
White Papers Tri-Center Community Schools educates 900 K - 12 students on one campus in southwest Iowa. By upgrading its computers to the Windows Vista operating system, the district provided teachers with state-of-the-art multimedia capabilities for creating...
[December 2, 2008, 23:00]
