Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (225 mails)

["Mark Evans" <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 10:07:57AM +0100, Chris Puttick wrote:
> What if RM decided to stop developing Integris? What would your school/LEA
> do then?

Or even if RM cease to exist. In which case the ownership of the
Intergris software could be in dispute.

> RM already provide support for an open source package (Squid). You don't

Squid would still exist even if RM disappeared.

> think they'd offer support for another package? This solution will be

Especially if they could easily stick an RM branding on :)

> potentially as easy to support as Squid anyway. LEAs have already learnt to
> support more than one school solution; learning to support another will not

Which includes various incarnations of SIMS and
migration from file database SIMS to server 
database SIMS.


> be impossible.

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Mark Evans
St. Peter's CofE High School
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