Re: [school-discuss] Help!

["Zamir H." <zamir@atweb.net>]

Check this out www.aptron.com, very mature software, have been 
around for 20+ years in colleges. Runs on all open platforms
APTRON solutions include browser and client-based:Admissions and 
Recruiting,Student, Faculty, Parent and Alumni Access,Budget 
Manager,Alumni and Fund Raiser, Student Administration, Financial 
Aid, Institutional Advancement, Finance and Accounting Human 
Resources
Zamir



 >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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