____/ Mark Kent on Friday 20 July 2007 18:13 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 20 July 2007 13:58 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Welsh schools Open Source email goes live
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| The UK's largest Open Source email system for schools has gone live. In
>>>>| late 2006 Carmarthenshire County Council appointed Sirius Corporation, a
>>>>| European Open Source services provider, to build a bi-lingual e-mail
>>>>| portal for use by all the schools in the region, some 40,000 children.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=32694&hilite=
>>>
>>> Well done Sirius!
>>>
>> Specsavers was their much bigger contract. but sadly enough, Scalix got
>> nicked by Xandros (Microsoft by association?).
>
> I'm hoping to get Mark T along to my next internal open-source event to
> talk about the Specsavers contract.
He wrote to tell me about it immediately. Surely it's going to open the door to
many similar contracts. Open source is on a roll...
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