On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:13:35PM +0000, ian wrote:
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 20:19, john@rygannon.com wrote:
Hi I can only speak from what I know from my days with MySQL AB and what I know about who is using my own app, Rekall MySQL is/was used by Oxford University as part of there contribution to the Human Genome Project - that's the biggy Huddersfield and Sheffield Universities Computer Science Dept use MySQL Nottingham Trent University use both MySQL and Rekall in preference to MS Abcess
The argument for MS software is often "to prepare them for real world apps" If this is the case there is a strong argument to junk Access an
Which isn't really the case in the first place. Even where the "real world" uses MS stuff it could be anything Microsoft has produced in the last 15 (or so years).
use a SQL database since real data base work these days is much more likely to be web based SQL than just about anything else. The real
But what might be the "norm" in 5-10 years? Predicting the future is a difficult task. The real task would have to be predicting what each student might be using when they leave school. But this is even more difficult than picking the modal model...
There really is no excuse not to use open source apps in education apart from apathy and ignorance both of which should both be banned word in an education environment.
Shouldn't the situation be more along the lines of OSS being the default option with proprietary apps only used if they can demonstrate a specific reason for use? -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763