Re: [seul-edu] Re: Unified Front...

["Michael Williams" <mwilliams@haywood.k12.nc.us>]

>
> OK, I'm going to ask a simple question.  If we provided a ISO of the
> top N  educational apps, HOW-TOs, documentation, war stories, got
> permission to  distribute Star/Open Office, perhaps more, whatever
> (what I referred to  once as a package), would that be enough to get a
> district excited and  successful, or must we also include a Linux
> distro?
>
Simple answer..NO

Were is the training and support options? Those are the biggest obstacles to
overcome, desktop or server room. Mailing lists aren't enough. RTFM is not
enough. Unless you tie to a standard distro and provide scripts and
configurations that are pretty much canned your not going to win over the
majority of school systems.

michael

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