Which is where we come in... My current favourite idea is using students studying Computer Science at Master's level to do it as project work, providing either the company's with cheap quality labour or the school/CLC/LEA/EiC with a low cost way of making their own content widely available. Funding may even be available from NgFL - find your local contacts and market the idea to them. Manchester Uni projects director jumped at the chance; I'm sure Bradford, Leeds, York, Aber, Exeter, Reading, UCL, et al. will be similarly receptive. -----Original Message----- From: Grainge, Derek To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Sent: 10/1/02 3:10 PM Subject: RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] WINE is all we need...

Persuading people who produce educational software to stop doing that and start producing web based tools using open standards which do the same jobs, is perhaps more likely to produce results than getting them to take on a new platform.

Agreed. A good point Phil; so longs we can avoid the Java / J#/C# issue. The issue over Java version numbers is no more difficult than it would be for C++ developers. Nor need 'open' imply web based: why not gcc + Crygwin? One problem being many programs need some sort of back end - and that pushes us into server technology and database compatibility. How many small companies would have their heads round Java, XML, SQL ? -- ************************************************************************ ******** All mail sent and received may be examined to prevent transmission of unacceptable material. Wellington College does not accept responsibility for email contents. Problems to postmaster@wellington-college.berks.sch.uk. Website: http://www.wellington-college.berks.sch.uk ************************************************************************ ******** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com