Pearson switched it to Oracle just a year ago which was a pain in itself knowing about the Mac support. Pearson is only offering 6 month free hosting which came because they did this after school budgets were in but it does not cover the entire school year.
They do push offering to host it for schools for a hefty fee which is more a year than a server would cost. I am not Pearson's biggest fan. ---------- "He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." --- Benjamin Franklin ----- Original Message ----- From: "JimHays" <hay...@sages.us> To: "Tech-Geeks Mailing List" <tech-geeks@tech-geeks.org> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 11:22:38 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Power School - Interesting I am not blaming Pearson. I just find it a bit ironic. The article does go on to explain options for Power School district who use Mac servers. Pearson is offering 12 months of free hosting on their cloud. Pearson seems to be doing what they need to do to appease their Mac server schools. Like it says in the article it would just be too expensive and cumbersome for Pearson to have to develop the product for a different database and keep two development teams and two support teams. It looks like Oracle has pretty much abandoned Macs. Joshua Halls wrote: > To be fair, read down the page a bit, Oracle hasn't upgraded their DB > for Apple and I guess that seems to be the issue. According to > Wikipedia 11g came out in 2007. Not knowing the issue, if they > haven't updated Oracle in 3 years on the Mac environment I cannot > really blame them if they decide to stop supporting it (if that is the > case that the time is what it is). > > --Josh > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:43 AM, JimHays <hay...@sages.us > <mailto:hay...@sages.us>> wrote: > > "Education industry giant Pearson says its PowerSchool student > information system (SIS) software will cease to support Macintosh > database servers by Dec. 31, forcing Mac-using districts to make > some tough decisions." > > for more...... > > > http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/08/19/mac-based-districts-could-face-sis-quandary/ > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org > <http://www.tech-geeks.org/> | > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
