[Fwd: [Fwd: [Inschool] [Fwd: [Fwd: [KLUG Members] New LINUX products]]]]

Mon, 01 Jul 2002 20:54:53 -0400

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Hi All.

I've had a response from my school board contact. This is what he had to
say about the last two or three emails that I have sent him.

Bruce

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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:38:42 -0400
From: William L James <BJames@inetmi.com>
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Bruce:

I think my primary emphasis with this is to make sure that our people
can do their jobs... Obviously, some of the titles I listed will not be
supported by Linux (Bill Gates will do his very best to make sure of
that). As a result, we need to look at the alternatives - are there any
available, can they do the same thing as what we use now, how much
training/conversion work will be required to actually get up to speed
with the new product? This also means that we have to have a good
understanding of what product functionality we currently use (in order
to make a valid comparison).

The other aspect of this (which is more important to me) is software
used by students. I personally know that some of the programs used
at North were specifically requested by the teachers after they had
done research on various packages. I also know that some of the
classes at the High School use MS tools because that is what seems
to be prevalent out in the workforce. It may be a requirement that
some of these programs have to work (not sure). I am also thinking
that there may need to be another study run by the teachers that
includes Linux packages, since I'm pretty sure they only looked at
Windows-based programs before. BTW - Mark is on vacation
this week, so I will try to contact him on Monday or Tuesday.

Thanks,
Bill

Bruce wrote:

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> Subject: Re: [Inschool] [Fwd: [Fwd: [KLUG Members] New LINUX products]]
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:33:38 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>
> Reply-To: inschool@kalamazoolinux.org
> To: inschool@kalamazoolinux.org
>
> >Here is a email reply from my school board connection, and the questions
> >that he has.
> >Does anybody know if Linux can run some/all of these programs?
>
> Do you mean 'those programs exactly' or equivalents?
>
> >I talked to him tonight and he said "...if there's any of them that
> >won't run, then its' not worth it to use Linux..."
>
> I'll guarantee that 100% of the applications they currently use will NOT
> run on Linux.  So if they want to use it as a verbatim Windows replacement
> we can just forget about this now and save ourselves the trouble.
>
> >Any suggestions? Does anybody _know_if there would be a problem with
> >linux running any of these mentioned below?
> >- Student learning (Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, Kid Pix, Mavis Beacon,
> >    Jumpstart, NovaNET, and many others)
>
> We are testing some of these.  Some will probably work,  we will probably
> find some that do not.
>
> >- Writing notes to parents (MS Word, MS Works)
> >- Creating presentations (MS Powerpoint, MS Excel, MS Works)
> >- Developing newsletters (MS Publisher, MS Works, and others)
>
> Are equivalents acceptable?  Not one of the above applications will work
> on Linux.
>
> >- Recording grades and scores (I think this SW is provided by KRESA)
>
> Almost certainly not.
>
> >- Writing and reading e-mail (MS Outlook, AOL, and others)
>
> There are lots of MUAs.  Outlook will NOT work, and no AOL support.
>
> >-Surfing the web (Internet Explorer, Netscape)
>
> Sure. :)
>
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