Is Linux Right for Your School? Jul 1, 2007, 00 :00 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (10512 reads) (Other stories by Marc Wagner)
"My colleague, Chris Dawson, has written several excellent pieces recently about Linux (mostly about the latest from the Ubuntu family of products but more recently about SuSE) and he has made some excellent points. The question one has to ask though in deciding whether Linux is right for your school is this:
"Does your school's IT department have the expertise to support a robust Linux thin-client model with Linux serving both generic personal productivity applications and Windows or Macintosh-based discipline-specific instructional applications? How about a simpler standalone Linux environment...?"