Re: [school-discuss] Re: Karoshi, anyone? -> gradebook

[lee <sregdoreel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, sorry, I see what your question is now...

I'm sure it'd help but teachers & school districts are funny about their gradebook systems, it's worse than M$-addiction. The best analogous example is when MS started marketing MS Money, they couldn't get into the market very quickly b/c all the Quicken users wouldn't switch over, even if MS gave MS Money away....  A school district's student database & teacher's gradebooks are just like that... User lock-in is a funny thing.

The parts of a network least-vulnerable to user lock-in are the LAN fileservers, etc., b/c the tech is transparent to the end user... This used to be the case of Sybase on Unix vs. MS SQL Server on WinNT, there was no functional difference (b/c MS SQL Server was rebranded Sybase...).

/lee
lee <sregdoreel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Eh?
>
> Maybe
>  I'm not the Lee you think I am? I don't know anything about Open Admin...
>
> /lee rodgers, in Austin soon to relocate elsewhere... 
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> Les Richardson <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  Hi Lee,
> >
> > Would it help if I made the Open Admin gradebook able to 
> > run separately from the rest of the Open Admin structure, so that teachers 
> > could run/configure their own gradebooks? This, of course, is a web based 
> > gradebook. Additionally, make it a .deb package...
> >
> >
> > Les Richardson
> > Open Admin for Schools
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, lee wrote:
> >
> > > What I found was there's a social inertia that pulls the users back to 
> > > Windows, esp. in the *lower* grades where the users want Windows-only 
> > > titles like the *-Blaster series, etc. If one could get most Windows edu 
> > > & gradebook  software titles
> >  to run on WINE, then that'd be ideal.... 
> > > OTOH at places like 5dollarsoftware.com, they can get these computer 
> > > games for $5 per copy, so IT mgm't may be more willing to bear the MS 
> > > license mgm't overhead on more-recent machines that run Win2K or XP.
>
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