Are they providing additional services (updates and such) or just flat out hosting it?
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Mike Swanson <mswan...@pgd46.org> 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. > > > ---------- > "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 | > > THIS TRANSMISSION IS INTENDED AND RESTRICTED FOR USE BY THE ABOVE ADDRESSEE > ONLY. IT MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR PRIVILEGED INFORMATION EXEMPT FROM > DISCLOSURE UNDER FEDERAL OR STATE LAW. IN THE EVENT SOME OTHER PERSON OR > ENTITY RECEIVES THIS TRANSMISSION, SAID RECIPIENT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT > ANY DISSEMINATION, DISTRIBUTION, OR DUPLICATION OF THIS TRANSMISSION OR ITS > CONTENTS IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU SHOULD RECEIVE THIS TRANSMISSION IN ERROR, > PLEASE CALL US IMMEDIATELY AT 309.827.6031, DELETE THE FILE FROM YOUR > SYSTEM, AND DESTROY ANY HARD COPIES OF THIS TRANSMISSION. THANK YOU. > > Bloomington Public Schools School District87 > Bloomington, Illinois >
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