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2009/4/28 tom <tombrough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > The only School "Admin" products (not Schools IT Admin) that I am aware > of are FreeMis and schooltool (one of Mark Shuttleworth's babies) . > > These products will have very little impact unless someone with a lot of > money, power and influence comes in and shake things up big time. > > Even Becta blow hot and cold about GNU/Linux. Sure they want schools to > move to open source / free software BUT .... they don't know how to > facilitate this, preferring instead to use a commissioning model and > outsourcing the fact finding tasks to a third party (who equally have > not track record of education admin / use / support on the GNU/Linux > platform). Tom Did you see this thread? http://is.gd/vow8 -- Steve Lee OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html