eWeek: Teachers Union Turns to Open Source

“A major teachers union is looking to open-source technology to
move its enterprise systems and its members to a new
non-proprietary platform that the union will control
completely.

“The New York-based United Federation of Teachers, a
150,000-member teachers union for New York City’s teachers in the
city’s five boroughs and 1,300 schools, announced the move Monday,
said Bill Stamatis, Web content manager for UFT. UFT moved from a
Windows- and AS/400-based solution to an open-source
solution…”

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