On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had a pissing match with their founder in the WSJ about a year > ago...
I saw that written up at OLPC News. Yes, Ncomputing is still at it, just like Intel and Microsoft. Competition, you know. Can't have that. ^_^ > I didn't get any straight answers from him about costs or > learning. Nothing usable on the site yesterday. Most of the site is down today. > But Sugar on their Ubuntu thin client sounds doable. Perhaps we should have a word with Macedonia and some other countries. We can't leave all of the sales work to Nicholas any more. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/09/17/226807/macedonia-rolls-out-ncomputing-clients-for-all-school.htm 180,000 units 1.8 M in India... > -walter > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Edward Cherlin <echer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Has anybody evaluated Ncomputing's claims on cost, power, and the like >> for school deployments? For example, >> >> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Interview/Stephen_Dukker_CEO_Ncomputing/articleshow/3820649.cms >> http://www.ncomputing.com/republic-of-macedonia.aspx >> >> They run Ubuntu (or Windows) over thin clients, so they could run >> Sugar once the packaging problems are fixed (The journal currently >> saves precisely nothing). Has anybody talked with them? >> >> -- >> Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name >> And Children are my nation. >> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep