The California public schools are starving for funds as never before. Teachers are devoted to their Macs and have invested in HW and SW, but the front office AFAIK is still M$ with all the HW upgrading and licensing that that implies.
I believe a group of educators in Seattle has spent some years working on Linus for school admin. If they or anyone else has some SW that is good enough for prime time, maybe the school administrators are broke enough to listen to alternatives. Even taking in Samba and mail servers might save a school meaningful bucks on machinery and OSs. We have teachers in the SIG. Can they comment? If this is a sellable idea to the schools (and it might not be), then we would have to: 1. locate and understand the SW 2. set the school(s) up 3. test 4. train their IT staff But it would have an end point. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
