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I know Linux and various OSS is used widely at Watkins College and Vanderbilt University in the Nashville TN area. The more money the school has the more likely they seem to be to go to closed source solutions mainly because of manpower requirements. To me software seems to cost about the same, it just depends on where you want to put your $$ (cheap software takes more tuning and understanding so people costs go up. 'Professional software' tends to take less training, though some is still needed, and is more likely to work to some extent out of the box with much less tweaking, and often can go into 'production' use faster.) The right mix is always hard to choose. I have also been some places that won't go to OSS because 'there is no one to sue'. ><> ... Jack Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:40 PM, bas milis <bas.milis-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > I was wondering if anyone in this list ever implementing OSS for > business process in educational institution (e.g. school, university). > I and a friend are investigating OSS usability for a school. We are > interested in knowing if it is possible to leverage OSS (preferably > free OSS) to support a school in both the school management process > and the education process. At the moment, we are having difficulties > in defining the metric to measure usability and selecting business > process worth for investigation. > > We are still in a very early stage. I would really love to discuss our > current work with anyone having interest in it. Please contact me in > private mode. > > Thx, > -bas > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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