Re: [sheflug] government open source policy

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 11:41 +0000, David Willington wrote:
> The scheme
> I've proposed to the school is to get round the problem of intermittent
> internet access from the school while still providing 24/7 access to the
> VLE. We'll run moodle internally and externally and synch the two
> servers every so often.

Hm, that's an interesting solution. Does that mean that the external
server is effectively going to be read-only, though?

> The school seems tied (politically) to the
> internet access that the LEA provides. I've suggested we try and sneak
> another independant line into the school for synching the servers.

This is one of the big issues which makes it really difficult for SMEs
to supply into the public sector: a lot of deals are made at quite a
high level in order to get economies of scale, which means smaller
businesses are unable to compete for the business. But, it's really the
SMEs who would potentially be supplying free software, so it effectively
locks out free software.

Cheers,

Alex.


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