OSS for education

[Jack Coats]

I know Linux and various OSS is used widely at Watkins College and
Vanderbilt University in the Nashville TN area.  The more money the
school has the more likely they seem to be to go to closed source solutions
mainly because of manpower requirements.  To me software seems to
cost about the same, it just depends on where you want to put your $$
(cheap software takes more tuning and understanding so people costs
go up.  'Professional software' tends to take less training, though some
is still needed, and is more likely to work to some extent out of the box
with much less tweaking, and often can go into 'production' use faster.)

The right mix is always hard to choose.  I have also been some places that
won't go to OSS because 'there is no one to sue'.

><> ... Jack
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23



On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:40 PM, bas milis <bas.milis-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone in this list ever implementing OSS for
> business process in educational institution (e.g. school, university).
> I and a friend are investigating OSS usability for a school. We are
> interested in knowing if it is possible to leverage OSS (preferably
> free OSS) to support a school in both the school management process
> and the education process. At the moment, we are having difficulties
> in defining the metric to measure usability and selecting business
> process worth for investigation.
>
> We are still in a very early stage. I would really love to discuss our
> current work with anyone having interest in it. Please contact me in
> private mode.
>
> Thx,
> -bas
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