So, you are telling me that I should be happy that we don't use Power
School??????
Mike Swanson wrote:
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.
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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/
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