[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.

2007-04-13 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Karthik, Please scroll down and read the original post under the thread head 50 Solaris school computers. The question is if there is a computer with Sun Solaris operating system, learning Star Office and java becomes easier. But the student also has to learn windows and Vbasic. How does

[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.

2007-04-13 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Dear Karthik, Sorry, the original message that I posted under the thread 50 Open Solaris School Computers does not form part of this message. This message contains the last two messages of that message thread with the new thread headline Challenge: Teaching In brief, the original message

[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.

2007-04-13 Thread Srichand Pendyala
Hi! On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 23:59 +0530, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote: Dear Karthik, snip Dual Boot or VMware ? Which one is most suitable ? Which one is less expensive ? Um, both are equally expensive actually. Dual boot or VMware, you still have to pay for your copy of Windows. And

[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.

2007-04-13 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Hello What kind payments to be made to Microsoft if Vista is to be run on VMware in a desktop? Thank you. On 4/13/07, Srichand Pendyala srichand.pendyala at gmail.com wrote: Hi! On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 23:59 +0530, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote: Dear Karthik, snip Dual Boot or

[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.

2007-04-13 Thread Venky
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:47:57AM +0530, Ananth Shrinivas wrote: What kind payments to be made to Microsoft if Vista is to be run on VMware in a desktop? You need a standard MS license for the OS you wish to run. If its a school, you need to buy one license for every single computer you

[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.

2007-04-13 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On 4/13/07, G N S shivakumar.gn at gmail.com wrote: No point over-engineering the solutions such as VMware if windows *has* to be taught. Multiple issues - technical/legal/administrative will need to be dealt with. Legal issue being the trickiest since these are always current and may change

[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.

2007-04-13 Thread Karthic Somalinga
Hi Siva, Considering the Syllabus you referred to Vista would be a bad option. You can do that very much with XP flavours even and Vista will add more complexity and will cost you high. As referred by Srichand, both ideas are equally expensive but prefer dual boot rather than VMWare (as it will

[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.

2007-04-13 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Hello Open Solaris, Thank you all for the flood of attentive responses on this question. The responses have in total given a shape to a solution that can be offered to the school: 1. A sun Solaris desktop with dual boot option ( based on Srichand Pendyala's observation that VMware is free, free

[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.

2007-04-12 Thread Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
Hello, The following syllabus information is received from the school: XI Std. June July An Introduction to Computers Volume 1 Number Systems An Introduction to Windows Windows Explorer, computers, Communications August Internet September HTML - An Introduction to html - some more tags,

[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.

2007-04-12 Thread Karthic Somalinga
I suppose there is some misunderstanding about Solaris here. I wonder how somebody can learn Microsoft Windows on Solaris Machine (unless they understood Solaris as a hardware). - Karthic On 4/12/07, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy shiva.madras at gmail.com wrote: Hello, The following syllabus

[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.

2007-04-12 Thread G N S
No point over-engineering the solutions such as VMware if windows *has* to be taught. Multiple issues - technical/legal/administrative will need to be dealt with. Legal issue being the trickiest since these are always current and may change at any point of time. Just setup windows and teach