[ILUG] Typical - Schools / vendor lockin.

[John Hegarty]

 On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Stephen Burke wrote:

> AFAIR, 11,000 new Dell Workstations also went into Secondary Schools as
> > part of the above revision of the technology subjects for the Leaving
> > Cert.
> >
>
> Scratch that. It was 4,500 Dell pc's in total.



Yep can't argue with that - the T4 programme is hopefully a sign of things
to come http://www.t4.ie/ict.htm - Pity it is a windows only solution. A lot
more of the same is needed to get things up to speed in the 3200 primary and
800 secondary schools in Ireland.

jh

Rgds,
> Steve Burke
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