Well, how much trouble will I get into for continuing? They made a lot of changes since we first got it. I have even been badgered by support for putting up our own images in the start screen (I would change it every week just for fun and the staff liked it).
---------- "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 12:10:24 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Power School - Interesting 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. > > > ---------- > "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 | > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
