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[Paul Taylor <ptaylor@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 13 April 2006 12:22, Tim Fletcher wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 08:39 +0100, Paul Taylor wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 23:12, Tim Fletcher wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 20:40 +0100, garry saddington wrote:
> > > > > Another example is the compulsory KS3 "online" testing which
> > > > > requires a Windows client machine to run on. QCA are responsible
> > > > > for commissioning this software and it is propriatory software
> > > > > vendor RM who are implementing it. Schools running Linux thin
> > > > > clients have been told to "get Citrix" at the cost of thousands of
> > > > > pounds.
> > > >
> > > > They have not told me - yet.
> > >
> > > Interestingly the server software for the KS3 online testing is written
> > > on top of tomcat and postgresql, however we have been told that the
> > > Linux server has been scraped now
> >
> > Are you sure about that Tim?  I have just set up the Redhat version at my
> > school that was provided by RM with reasonably good documentation.  I set
> > it up just before the holidays and left the technicians to get it going
> > over the holidays so don't know how well it is doing.
>
> We where told in no uncertain terms by the RM helpline that the RedHat
> version of the server would never see the light of day and that we
> couldn't use it
>
As I said, we got the pack (which included ES4 and the software etc.) and all 
the documentation and for RM it is actually quite good.  The installation was 
fairly straight forward.  It installs a Tomcat and Postgresql combination and 
Java to interface with the desktop machines.  When I left school at the end 
of last term I had it running on a server and we were just waiting for the 
on-line registration to complete so that we could try the tests.
This link says that they are supporting it:
http://www.rm.com/qca/mainpage.asp?contentref=qcap179065

HTH

Paul
> --
> Tim Fletcher
> Learning Technologies Manager - Parrs Wood High School