[NTLUG:Discuss] Venturing into new horizons

[jeremyb@univista.com]

 We are the only administrators.  We support them full time essentially.
They don't require that much attention though.  We're going with the
psuedo-thinclient
computer because I can set them up to be more or less self-monitoring and
far more
secure then individual installs of Win2000...  The clients will tell us when
bad thing happen...
  ie. the kids start trying to breakout of rdesktop into a shel, etc,etc. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Sent: 7/23/02 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Venturing into new horizons

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:26:48AM -0500, jeremyb at univista.com wrote:
>   I've found that non-profit organizations like schools are very
> interested in anything that keeps them technologically viable and
> doesn't cost much.  

I agree 100%...I've always thought there would be a living to be made
from
consulting with school districts (especially smaller cash-strapped ones)
to help
them cut costs by dumping Microsoft and other proprietary systems.  

> The school we're working with is, indeed, aware
> we're using Linux and other GPL software and they welcome it
> ....ofcourse we are the administrators. 

Do you have support from the school administration (either site or
district level)?
If so, you are doubly lucky.  I've found, at least in the Dallas area,
that
administrators are very pro-Microsoft, and vehemently anti-open source
(the latter,
I believe, is due to (1) ignorance and (2) job security).

  --Brian