On Thursday 05 October 2006 01:58 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Behind the Scenes at an Indiana Linux Deployment
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> | SimÃn Anibal Ruiz Rolfs is a technology assistant at Bloomington High
> | School North in Bloomington, Indiana who is personally responsible for
> | 279 Ubuntu Linux workstations in 9 English classrooms as part of the
> | state's Indiana ACCESS program.
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> http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/2006/10/001568.php
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> Can you imagine the cost of 279 machines with proprietary software? Can
> you imagine the guy bouncing back and forth removing malware from hundreds
> of PC's that are used by children who don't know (Web surfing) better?
Perhaps not as high as you think....
IIRC Indiana was offered S/W at *very* low prices, but they (Indiana)
insisted that they were not interested in the *initial* cost, but rather
the sustainable cost. That sealed it:-)
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