Schools gotta get their business done, too. If it's not servicing your needs, do you honestly think it will service a school's needs? In many cases, there will be many, many more users than the typical small office server serves. If the school district does offer A+ and computer classes I can see it being useful, but if they are doing work, not so much.
I had to refuse a donation of a 4 year old server that the local branch office of the electric utility offered to us because it was too old. At the time, all of my servers were just over a year old. Private schools may be more interested in a donation, too. I know many of the private schools around here struggle for equipment. On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > The rural county I live in told me the last time I had server or desktops > to donate that unless they were less than a year old they were not > interested. Lucky for me the local community college loved the donation. > They teach A+ and other computer classes so machines the students can take > apart and put together and make work on any OS works for them. If they > don't work then they still enjoy them. > > Jon > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I've found that many of the school districts around here will not accept >> any computer donations more than 2 or 3 years old. They are WAY more >> picky >> than they were 10 years ago ! >> >> >> >> Erik Goldoff >> IT Consultant >> Systems, Networks, & Security >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:09 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: Donating Servers? >> >> Technology requirements may be skyrocketing, but the usefulness of ancient >> hardware is dropping faster than a rock. >> >> In a lot of situations anything that's not capable of reasonably running >> XP >> or 2003 is useless. >> >> If you do give it to a school... make sure you give them the hard drives! >> >> Joe Heaton wrote: >> > Check with your local school district too, especially in these times. >> > The technology requirements for classrooms is skyrocketing, and >> > education budgets are getting slashed… >> >> -- >> >> Phil Brutsche >> [email protected] >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
