Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (46 mails)

[Paul Taylor <ptaylor@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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