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[News] School Saves Money by Choosing Free Software

  • Subject: [News] School Saves Money by Choosing Free Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:13:49 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Aiken, SC High School Deploying Moodle

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| Midland Valley High School, in Aiken, SC, recently received a grant of $1 
| million - out of 5 million going to various schools. The grant will allow the 
| school to offer each freshman student a laptop they can keep for the full 4  
| years they attend the school. Additionally, the school is deploying Moodle, a 
| GPL'ed e-learning system.   
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http://blue-gnu.biz/node/91

Also new (and impressive):

Actuate Harnesses Open Source to Advance Leadership in BI

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070813005296&newsLang=en


Related:

Russian government to finance Linux version for schools

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| Russian Ministry of Finance approved RUR 3 bln financing from state budget 
| for software on school computers.  
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http://webplanet.ru/english/2007/07/24/russian_soft_en.html


Linux employment in German schools rises 

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| According to a study of the computer science Dienstleisters DLGI the German 
| schools invest into computer science instruction, whereby Linux and 
| OpenOffice.org are increasingly used.  
| 
| The Microsoft monopoly at the schools, which is to be at present about 99%, 
| will crumble in the coming two years, found DLGI out in the study. In this 
| period new PC systems want to purchase, over 40% also new Office software 
| over 50% of the asked schools. Many look actively for alternatives to 
| Microsoft.    
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http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=mozclient&num=50&u=http%3A//www.pro-linux.de/news/2007/11520.html
http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2007/11520.html

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