[seul-edu] [Fwd: RE: Preliminary thoughts on a Linux in education promotion]

[Doug Loss <drloss@home.com>]

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Subject: RE: Preliminary thoughts on a Linux in education promotion
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 17:45:18 -0500
From: rsevenic@netscape.net
To: drloss@home.com (Doug Loss)

The schools have a lot of money, legacy code, and familiarity invested
in current systems. The cost element will move some administrators, but
not the troops using the systems - the money doesn't come directly from
their pockets. They won't want to start up another learning curve.
Nevertheless, the timing may be good for such an effort. I'm starting to
see local schools with insecure, virus laden networks suddenly going
down hard - and getting them back up and keeping them up IS affecting
the troops in the trenches. One element of the Linux advantage should
address that problem area. Security and robustness are big issues.

Regards,
Richard