Promoting Open Source in Schools

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:59:26PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> Okey, except one that I know of. :-)
> 
> But, in all honesty, thin-client alone will eliminate 90% of IT cost,
> because it eliminates desktops altogether and all associated cost like
> payroll of sysadmin, maintenance, upgrade, configuration, etc.  I have
> better chance of making my living as porn stud, than as Linux salesman.

They already tried thin clients.  They just paid way too much for them
from Unisys.  This was of course before they started running PCs, and in
the days where they still had Apple IIs and C64s around, and maybe the
odd mac in an office.

> I'm just awed by Microsoft's prowse in all this.  When they say Linux is
> job killer, they are right on.  While we Linux amateurs talk about
> technical merits of Linux, Microsoft talks directly to the decision
> makers and IT staffs.

Of course if it does cut down the number of extremely over worked (at
least from what I have seen) school board technicians, it would seem
like a good thing (except to those technicians that don't want to learn
something new).

Len Sorensen
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