Hi
Schools in Dubai , uses legal software of MS
products , Heavy discount from MS plus the attitude of
the IT guys in the schools
This School ( Gulf Model School ) has to do
LINUX , because it is under SSLC (Kerala board ) ,
since there is an option about the choice of the OS ,
they are sticking to the MS
My experience with IT staff in Dubai Schools
are horrible , they are ignorant about LINUX or
OpenSource , even if they are aware they ask me why to
change , Linux is for developers , it is not stable ,
It is this , 100 reasons they used to put up
But in Industry Linux is coming up
steadily , there is a linux user group , which do has
among 300 members and almost 25-30 active members ,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dubailug/ , there are
more than 10 companies which specialize in giving
Linux solution, RedHat , SuSE and Mandrake there are
dealers over here , this was not the case few years
back
Also a leading publisher (CPI ) has
started magazine for Linux users , known as Linux
World , things are changing
Here in Industry money may not be a
problem , but some percentage of new young IT
managers are thinking in way , to spend money wisely ,
Surely things are changing here Steadily
Thanks
Joseph John (Saji )
--- Nataraj S Narayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Do these schools in Dubai use legal M$ Software in
> Dubai? If cost is not
> a consideration for them, they aint gonna consider
> Linux at all. Also,
> Gulf is not an area for any kind of Software
> development - they are just
> consumers.
>
> But cost is a factor for a poor state like Kerala.
> The Govt must pushing
> Linux heavily.
>
> But what beats me is , how or who did get Linux into
> the syllabus , in a
> substatial way? Has to be the job some visionary and
> or somebody with
> Leftist ideals - like Dr Iqbal (Ex VC of Kerala
> Uni).
>
> regards
>
> Nataraj
>
>
>
> John Joseph wrote:
>
> >Hi
> > Recentely I visited one school in Dubai , Gulf
> >Model School (SSLC syllabus)
> > The management and staff was not much
> intrested
> >in giving LINUX facilty to the studetns , they say
> >that same thing they can do in Windows , and why
> they
> >need to do LINUX again
> > I voluntered for giving a free training to
> students
> >and staff , they were not at all intrested
> > Thanks
> > Joseph John
> >
> >--- Nataraj S Narayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi Mr.Cherian
> >>
> >>Congrats for the work you and MEC is doing for the
> >>FSF and training
> >>programmes that you are conducting.
> >>
> >>I wish get some info regarding Linux usage in
> >>schools. I have seen the
> >>text books of Govt state schools. It contains a
> good
> >>lot of Linux
> >>material covered as part of the syllabus. For
> >>example, a topic covering
> >>usage of MS Word is followed by the same topic
> >>covered in Openoffice.org
> >>writer. Corresponding to MS Paint they are giving
> >>xpaint also.
> >>
> >>But the question is, how much hands on, do the
> >>students get on Linux.
> >>AFAIK there are just Windows installations in
> these
> >>schools, not a
> >>single Linux box. How can this situation be
> >>confirmed? Are all schools
> >>like this? Can we get a survey data on the
> Linux-PC
> >>penetration in state
> >>schools?
> >>
> >>regards
> >>
> >>Nataraj S Narayan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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