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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think we are missing some points here. Its all very well setting up servers in schools but it not the server itself that the school is looking for its a solution to a set of problems that exist in educational establishments. The education market in the UK is very much controlled and dominated by ScoMis, Captia One, RM and Microsoft. These companies run services in the UK and are practically monopolies / cartels as far as UK Education IT is concerned. 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). As for the education software market. Again very much dominated by Microsoft based products. Very few education software houses are developing there products for the GNU/Linux platform. Its sad to see such inertia in the education system, however I don't think personally that the GNU/Linux revolution will just happen. It will take someone with talent, foresight, a lot of backing (in cash) and tenacity to change the tide in the education software market. Lobbying might help too ;-) Tom. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkn3RpwACgkQBX2gJWUv0ivRdQCdHKPwgQ17DrvtKR8b2n9ktzzT 47QAoJnhlm9IbjcUSulEBRbPccEs5EoG =EWcK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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