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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] article on GNU/Linux in schools and universities
  • From: Tim Fletcher <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:12:41 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <1144879955.3368.3.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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

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Tim Fletcher
Learning Technologies Manager - Parrs Wood High School


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