Hi all, Hi James,
my name is James Spedding and I work for a unit called RDIU in Anglia Polytechnic University. One area we are working is to provide solutions to school using linux instead of other proprietory software ---snip--- threads - what do you think is limiting the rollout of what is a better system into all schools? lack of support, lack of appropriate software, poor profile......
At my last school they had nothing to replace the Capita SIMS package. If there had been, we would have had a good chance of changing the whole school at one time.
Chris, in Manchester, is working on something. The problem from our POV is that going it alone would cause issues with pupil transfer (My comment that we "don't support Internet Explorer" didn't go down too well with someone LEA side. When I tried to explain that nothing in the PLASC EDI specs from central government actually required it.) and transfer of financial data, which currently uses some strange piece of software someone at country hall wrote. IME the main limitations are political, with LEAs, to a lesser extent central government and broadband consortia. As well as the "chicken and egg" situation with specialist software, though that didn't appear to be an issue moving from Acorns to Windows. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763