Re: [sheflug] government open source policy

[David Willington <david.willington [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hm, that's an interesting solution. Does that mean that the external
> server is effectively going to be read-only, though?
Interesting? That often has a double edged meaning! If you've any    
 further thoughts I'd welcome them. The plan is that if you're    
 accessing from outside school you'll access the external server and  
 if  you're inside school the internal one so that loads and bandwidth
 are (to some extent) shared. Assuming the kids don't   dash home too
  quickly I think the synching should work, but at the  moment I'm
  putting a few courses together for some classes to access  inside
  school so I can work out figures for bandwidth etc. and for the
 school to decide if Moodle's the way to go.
> 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.
I'm sure they're not unique in being convinced they don't get the 2Mb
access that they're expecting. When things go wrong the feel fairly
powerless to do much about it, and automatic upgrades to pretty much
everything they have seem to involve things going wrong somewhere.
Coupled with being told they'll have to pay more for something they
already thought they had and there's a mood to try open source.

All the best

David
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex.
> 
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