[Technical] Interesting computers-in-education piece. Education&the ACCC

[Clark, Ian C]

> -----Original Message-----
> When you're the Department of Education, you are making a 
> decision for 187,000+ PCs and over half a million users. 
> There will be many instances when your choice for one 
> platform doesn't apply across that whole user space. It may 
> be sub-optimal. Therefore, pushing a one-size-fits-all 
> approach is a problem. 

Hi Con,

You better get this right before your company spends anything on legal
fees!  :-)

The Department doesn't decide this for 187000 PCs and half a million
users - the individual schools do.

The only SOE (Standard Operating Environment) is the Office setup in
each school.

There is no central prescribing of operating systems a school purchases
for its students or staff.

So, there are schools with Novell, Macintosh and Linux computers. Some
reimage the leased IBM laptops they receive to better suit them ... they
could put Debian on them if they wanted.

Cheers,
Clarky


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