Re: [school-discuss] District DNA Getting Started Guide

["Steelhead" <bill@ries-knight.net>]

Would you consider looking at OpenOffice  as an optional replacement for
Word / MS Office?   That option is it is open source and much cheaper for
schools to use.
Just looking to more flexibility.

Bill


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Smyth" <smyth@northeast.tec.ma.us>
To: <schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 11:30 AM
Subject: RE: [school-discuss] District DNA Getting Started Guide


> My software the client side runs on win32 platforms at this time. There
> is a version of Delphi that run on Linux called Kylex, but I have not
> tried it and I doubt that all the components that I use would work under
> Linux. One for sure is the spelling checker. For spell checking I
> basically call MS Word. The software will run without MS Word but you
> will not be able to spell check. This mainly affects IEPs (Individual
> Education Plans) where there is a lot of free hand text.
>
> I use many OS (Windows, MAC, Linux, Unix etc). I take no position on any
> of them. They are just platforms for my programs. I use Delphi because I
> teach it and I have not seen any other system which allows one person to
> achieve so much and has the performance to schedule a large school in
> under 30 seconds.
>
> James P. Smyth
> Technology Coordinator
> Northeast Metropolitan School District
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
> [mailto:owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net] On Behalf Of
> Steelhead
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:19 PM
> To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
> Subject: Re: [school-discuss] District DNA Getting Started Guide
>
> That means there is a server (for running the Firebird database) and a
> client (for running my software). The client must run Windows 2000 or
> better, the server can run anything that runs Firebird (Linux, Windows
> 2000
> etc).
>
> By better, do you mean Linux?
>
> Bill
> (Yes it is outlook on Winxp)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Smyth, James" <smyth@northeast.tec.ma.us>
> To: <schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 10:44 AM
> Subject: [school-discuss] District DNA Getting Started Guide
>
>
> > I have posted a getting started guide on my web site
> www.districtdna.com
> > <http://www.districtdna.com/>  . It is a large system (287 tables in
> the
> > database) and it takes a bit to get started. I hope I have remembered
> > everything but if you have problems drop me a e-mail.
> >
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> > James P. Smyth
> > Technology Coordinator
> > Northeast Metropolitan School District
> >
> >
> >
>  (Yes it is outlook on Winxp)
>
>