On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 14:31, Ken Barber wrote: > While it's very believable that Micro$oft would do such a thing (below), I > have my doubts that the headmaster is accurately reporting Ed Qld.'s contract > with them. > > Though I'm not an expert, I have a little bit of experience with Micro$oft's > Campus Agreement. The agreements being made in the Windows NT days did not > contain any language excluding non-Windows operating environments. > > >From a quick read of the pertinent documents that are available to me on the > Web, it appears to me that Ed Qld. standardized on Windows NT as an operating > environment several years ago (as I did for the systems I administered) and > wanted to ensure that any computer purchases made are compatible with that > platform (as I also did). You might recall that there were many products > which weren't NT compatible 'way back then. > > Given NT's age, I would suggest that Ed Qld. might just possibly be looking > for ways to migrate to something newer. This might be an excellent time to > contact the Central Office, as your headmaster suggested, and inquire into > the exact nature of their Campus Agreement. They might be especially > receptive right now to an offer to set up an LTSP demo, or perhaps even a > pilot, for their inspection. > > Ken Barber
Thanks for the reply Ken, I hope you are right, although I suspect that the campus agreements will turn out to be different from the primary and high school agreement. I also hope the "Devil" has not got his hands onto the Private schools. I will be contacting Ed Qld tomorrow. I will report back as soon as I receive a response from them. Micro$oft tend to use Australia as a bit of a test ground to see if we squeal. I believe they are trying the "rent the software" campaign here at the moment. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
