[ale] Microsoft Windows ousted at California school district

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they're clearly not uber-geeks but I give them credit (especially non-IT
management) for not panicing at the 1st percieved challenge (even though it
shouldn't have been one).  any ground gained is unlikely to be lost which is
why you see the smear/FUD strategy from M$ (a la Massachusetts)...

I wonder how this slipped under their radar?  or it is possible that it
didn't (M$ tried a smear) and the decision makers actually decided to trust
the IT people?

anyone know the politics behind this?  call me cynical but I have a hard
time this decision was made purely on merit (or at least that it didn't have
some red herrings tossed at it)...

On 3/1/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
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> The transition is a good thing but the software costs they paid for are
> a shame. They paid a license fee for each thin client that connected to
> the terminal server (based on what suse says on their SLED 10 pricing
> page http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/howtobuy.html  at the very
> bottom).
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> Then they purchased a Citrix-alike tool to provide access to Micro$oft
> stuff hosted on M$ Terminal server when tsclient is a standard shipping
> package in SLED (and Fedora and ...).
>
> And they they bought Wyse terminals...
>
> Ok. So the wyse Linux terminal is probably a lot better than the HP
> T5125's but...
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> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 10:45 -0500, James Taylor wrote:
> > Nice headline to read on a rainy morning.
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> http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1245710,00.htm
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