On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:31:35 +0100 Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 26/08/2010 22:27, Kris Douglas wrote: > > On 26 August 2010 22:24, Gordon Burgess-Parker<gbpli...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> On 26/08/2010 19:25, Kris Douglas wrote: > >>> but said because of the computer contract with Research Machines, > >> My wife works for the largest Educational Publisher in the world > >> and RM is a TOTAL NIGHTMARE. They dictate to schools what software > >> they can or can't use - any software has to be "validated" by RM > >> in INDIA????? They are not out to provide a service to schools - > >> just to empire build and make a profit. > > From what I have seen, I can do nothing else but agree with you > > there, it's not just the software, they enforce rules on it all, > > and if those rules aren't followed they just don't support you. > > (i.e goodbye Linux partition on our CPT machines, one was formatted > > with ubuntu, and the RM engineer removed it because he thought that > > was causing the poor windows performance. -failing to notice it was > > set to download the users documents off of the server for each user > > that logged in.) > > > > It's about time that schools took a stand - unfortunately what RM do > is to contract with the LEA not individual schools, so schools get RM > foisted on them by the LEA and there's nothing they can do about it > - no doubt with substantial backhanders to the LEA members.
We have fun down our way - and the same may be true right across the country. It's not just the support and "what's on the deskop/server" that RM are into: ~$ whois swgfl.org.uk Domain name: swgfl.org.uk Registrant: South West Grid for Learning Registrar: RM Education PLC [Tag = RMPLC] URL: http://www.rm.com (South West Grid for Learning = ISP for pretty much all primary and secondary schools in the South West!) Grant. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/