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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 tom wrote: > 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. Including some which are fairly unique to education. > The education market in the UK is very much controlled and dominated by > ScoMis, Captia One, RM and Microsoft. These companies run services in ScoMis are Devon County Council... > 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. And if you can get data out of existing systems... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ9/G2soRLMhsZpFcRAqTgAJ9YclWq3CI6tjPIaqBKRORj5Qg+kACfaUxp fxULXT9sr3A2WD9a45mwbjU= =i0N6 -----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