On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:22, adrian.wells wrote:
It would seem that big, generic apps are not the problem as most 'business' type software tends to have a gnu/linux equivilent. The big problem are these ex teachers sitting in the middle of dartmoor, knocking out pc versions of their BBC micro software for Sup Ed and the like. I'm sure that these will not be given up easily by the departments that know and love them! I would also imagine that they would be unlikly to give up the income and move to open source nor invest the time to become multi platform.
That is exactly the argument for thin client. Low cost productivity
tools everywhere and fat clients running Windows for specialist apps
where needed. If you want a cyber cafe in the library a 15 station thin
client network costing under 5k is a good way to do it. Also in
libraries where fan noise is a nuisance and mostly the machine is used
for Internet research and producing documents. Target the technology on
need rather than assuming everything has to run everything.
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Ian Lynch