On 09/02/2009 23:15, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote:
unless some incredibly
well-designed thin client solutions were brought to my attention (and then
you're talking equivalent prices for thin clients as you would for regular
MiniATX desktops).
I'm not sure that a thin
³Microsoft offers the OS and Office at extremely competitive prices to
schools. I have heard it quoted as being around £5 per license for Office.²
It is cheaper but not that cheap...
For example:
MS Office single license = £43 + £25 Software assurance
Windows Server Standard (Single License)
I think FOSS can have a huge future but the community need to think about
user experience then it will be taken more seriously.
FWIW I've just come back from FOSDEM (open source community event in
Brussels), and there are plenty of open source projects now putting
usability at the top of their
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Alun Rowe alun.r...@pentangle.co.uk wrote:
//personal rant coming up...
For any open source software (Linux for example) to really work on the
network en mass we need to about user experience. Currently I've yet to see
an attractive/user friendly piece of
On 10 Feb 2009, at 09:23, Alun Rowe wrote:
“Microsoft offers the OS and Office at extremely competitive prices
to schools. I have heard it quoted as being around £5 per license
for Office.”
It is cheaper but not that cheap...
At Glasgow University it used to be nearly that cheap -
I was basing it on purchasing a single copy. Purchasing a site wide license
for say 500 desktops would see significant savings.
The Home/Student edition is cheaper but that's not for schools to use, it's
for the students to have on their own laptops which they aren't allowed to
connect to the
On 10/02/2009 09:36, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Alun Rowe alun.r...@pentangle.co.uk wrote:
//personal rant coming up...
For any open source software (Linux for example) to really work on the
network en mass we need to about user experience.
It goes deeper than this; currently there is no place in the
national curriculum to teach kids to touch type. So even
though they will most likely spend a large part of their time
on a keyboard no one thinks it appropriate to teach them an
effective way to do that.
Bet they know who was
The cost of school licences is a drop in the ocean compared to the cost of
lifetime subscription. Microsoft may be many things, but they aren't
stupid..!
Phil
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Fearghas McKay fm-li...@st-kilda.orgwrote:
On 10 Feb 2009, at 09:23, Alun Rowe wrote:
Microsoft
On 10 Feb 2009, at 09:51, Alun Rowe wrote:
I was basing it on purchasing a single copy. Purchasing a site wide
license
for say 500 desktops would see significant savings.
Which was Adam's point.
The Home/Student edition is cheaper but that's not for schools to
use, it's
for the
On 10/02/2009 10:24, Fearghas McKay fm-li...@st-kilda.org wrote:
I was basing it on purchasing a single copy. Purchasing a site wide
license
for say 500 desktops would see significant savings.
Which was Adam's point.
Indeed, the figures I included on the first email were just an
If the home/school copy works out at £33 each, you might as well look at
purchasing from www.theultimatesteal.com
Get office ultimate 2007 for £38.95 - I believe this is the second year
they've done it now as I took advantage of it last year as a student. It
certainly makes it a lot more
On 10 Feb 2009, at 10:41, Lee Stone wrote:
Get office ultimate 2007 for £38.95 - I believe this is the second
year they've done it now as I took advantage of it last year as a
student. It certainly makes it a lot more affordable.
That would mean running Windaes and me having to support it
Interesting as all these discussions are schools will have what's given
to them and supported under BSF monoploy IT provision (see
http://www.edugeek.net/wiki/index.php/List_of_awarded_ICT_contracts)
unless there is resistance and/or failure (see
On 10 Feb 2009, at 12:20, Neil Aberdeen wrote:
Interesting as all these discussions are schools will have what's
given to them and supported under BSF monoploy IT provision (see http://www.edugeek.net/wiki/index.php/List_of_awarded_ICT_contracts)
unless there is resistance and/or failure
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 23:15 +, Christopher Woods wrote:
different in its model, aiming itself as it does as a social enterprise for
the voluntary and educational sectors. How many schools do you serve in
your
locality? (just curious...) Your model obviously works exceptionally well
for
A postscript:
Anyone interested in helping to improve the
IT situation in schools (through FOSS) may be
interested in membership of Schoolforge-UK.
http://groups.google.com/group/sf-uk-discuss/about
The website contains many case studies, and the
(low traffic) mailing list a number of
On 10 Feb 2009, at 17:57, Richard Smedley wrote:
I'm suggesting 500 or 600 wholly new web apps, designed to cover the
whole
curriculum. A framework would be specified, and commissions given to
*UK*
developers - including bids from schools.
Of course the EU won't let us do it, but there's
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