RE: [Sheflug] Sheffield Green Party: Linux for Sheffield CityCouncil

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 10:43, Chris Johnson wrote:
> Schools and the LEA also have a huge investment in using the SIMS suite of
> applications for school management.  The latest version of SIMS runs on
> Microsoft SQL server and apparently will not run on standards compliant/Open
> source database servers.

On this point, Chris, we're talking to a school which is very unhappy
with SIMS (don't think they're the only one) about a possible project
which would re-implement SIMS with an open framework.

Seb
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