On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 05:17, Rommel P Feria wrote: > Ahhh - the flaw of using the US educational system here in the > country. I believe that it is not ideal for our situation. We are > better off using the British education system. I think we are the only > asian country using the US educational system.
> Anyway, UAP is a Microsoft partner, afaik. Using Linux might not be > 'attractive'. I don't know if ACM can have Ateneo or UP host next > year's contest. :-) [Disclaimer: Unofficial statement, as I do not officially represent the school, nor am I a lawyer. ;)] UA&P, as far as I know, isn't a Microsoft partner, or at least was before but isn't now. Case in point: last year's DBMS course's lab part was taught under Linux. We were taught rudimentary Linux usage, and had to code our Java servlets under Sun ONE, and deploy them on Apache Tomcat running on a Linux environment. There has been discussion on switching to free/open source software recently. IIRC, as recent as last year's ACM, all remnants of Microsoft Office was removed and replaced with OpenOffice.Org. The real problem is that the network is Win2k based, and our admins are NT-centric. So, outside of retraining or hiring Linux admins, getting Linux as a major component of the labs will be tough. However, I'm told that Mr. Joel Pira is helping out in that regard. JM Ibanez [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.livejournal.com/~cyberlizard/ --- A new koan: If you have some ice cream, I will give it to you. If you have no ice cream, I will take it away from you. It is an ice cream koan. --- -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
