Re: [school-discuss] Help!

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

ptietjens wrote:
> Anyone out there using commercial open source (free as in free speech) 
> software in their administrative functions?
>
> Specifically, I've just been told that after a year of deciding to ditch M$, 
> our district will be purchasing two (two!)  major pieces of software running 
> with M$ SQL backends;  financial and student management programs.
>
> I'd take DB2, Oracle, whatever!  At this point, I'm not even concerned about 
> open source (though that would solve some of the headaches we've had with our 
> existing apps for these purpsoses) as long as it isn't Microsoft!
Take a look here:

http://www.rdasys.com/prod3%20_mbgui.htm

That's for financials.  I'm not sure just what you mean by 
student management, so I'll point to a few packages.  Do you have 
to have commercial software (meaning contracted support, I suppose)?

http://k12admin.cmsd.bc.ca/
http://richtech.ca/openadmin/

Also, take a look at the apps in this category:

http://richtech.ca/cgi-bin/seul/seulvw.pl?category=Administrative

If some of the websites you're interested in don't resolve, 
contact me and I'll see what I can do to find them.

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