Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 1/20/07, StephenW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As the original poster perhaps I should have added a bit of
explaination for
posting. So, I shall.
I also work as a technical support person in an educational setting
that is
moving away from a "mixed platform" to a Windows only scenario. The mixed
platform came about way back when the local school had choice. The
district in
now in charge of all hardware decisions. I began two years ago
working with
Mac (OS 8.0 thru 10.3.8) and Windows (95 thru WindowsXP SP2). Thanks
be that
in the last year the decision was made that I am no longer expected to
keep
everything working. What is left are the Macs running 9.2 or better
and only
the machines running XP - eventually all Macs are scheduled for
replacement.
Somewhat off the thread topic, but our school district (Palo Alto)
demanded that all machines be Windows boxes (for some sort of
maintenance reasons). Until a parent came along and donated 30 iMacs to
the computer lab in one of the district schools (and put Linux on the
network server). Then, a pot of money appeared for one-time
expenditures, and the PTA bought MacBooks for all of the staff. So the
lesson to *that* story is that, if the district doesn't really have the
money to support some edict, and the parents come along and take control
of the situation with their wallets, a better solution can be had.
--
Tony Alfrey
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"I'd Rather Be Sailing"
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