"Linux carries significant risk" --County's official line

[Grommit]

But, we _need_ to show students how to use comparative OSs...

 

 

So I've got about five years to make linux the main one, and Windows the "comparative" one....

 

...Now, where's my OS/2 disk when I need it ?

 

Heh heh... :-)..

 

No mate... they mean the entire LA or LEA....

 

When the BSF come they are going to gut your network... everything..... and build a Windows Domain from Scratch...

 

All you boxes apart from the folders and pst's are gone gone gone....

 

unless you have servers under 18 months old.. anything over 3 years is out the window..

 

back on topic..

What OS are the workstations using ?...

 

because if it's XP then the argument of cost implications goes out the window as all you are doing is installing Exchange, IIS and ISA... which wont cost much at all...

 

So you need a better argument..

 

 

And look at the qmail website and you wonder why people avoid *nix...

 

http://qmail.internet.bs/top.html

[CyberNerd]

And look at the qmail website and you wonder why people avoid *nix...

really scraping the barrel there..

[Geoff]

People still use Qmail?

[putt1ck]

My summary:

 

Appalling nonsense. Many reasons why

 

My authority: IT Management for a group of schools including primary, secondary (inc. Beacon/Leading Edge school) and CLC, including provision of consultancy services to other schools and the LEA. Follow on experience in commercial sector providing ICT consultancy and project management in education.

 

Now I am a CIO outside of the education sector, doing what all responsible and competent CIOs are doing: looking at how to reduce TCO while improving services, all with a long term outlook. A key aspect of reducing TCO is eliminating lock-in, while maximising flexiblity; a natural conclusion is to move away from proprietary, non-standards compliant solutions.

 

If you want me to talk to your headteacher, let me know and I'll try and make it happen. You might also want to engage with local Conservative politicians as the shadow Chancellor has noted the savings available to the public sector by the use of open source.

 

Regards

 

Chris

[jingl3]

It's simply no longer true that Linux support, both competent and commercial, is hard to come by. Visit the Open Source Consortium web site at http://www.opensourceconsortium.org and check the map by clicking "OSC Search" on their home page - it shows companies over most of the country who can provide just that. Several have extensive experience supporting schools, for example, The Learning Machine based in Cannock near Birmingham, http://thelearningmachine.co.uk.

 

Good luck,

 

John

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[User3204]

I've not seen that site before.

 

I knew there was commercial support for moodle, (at moodle.com), as we had been looking at using it as a VLE, but I didn't know enough about it.

[boomam]

Theres a school in our LEA that did a big presentation a while back at a LEAworkshop: apart from the desktops, everything runs linux, and by the looks of it, runs pretty well.