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From: bob@bdofed.UUCP (n)
Newsgroups: misc.education,comp.edu
Subject: Setting directions
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Date: 10 Sep 90 18:40:52 GMT
Organization: Etobicoke Board of Education, Ontario
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Sorry if this is a repeat, our network burped and I can't find
any of the articles.

I am interested in what other school boards, not Universities, are
doing with setting directions for the purchase and integration
of computers.

We have an IBM 4381 running mainframe stuff, two AT&T 3B2s running
office automation and a collection of PCs and MACS. The school
systems are based on Unix, Pick, DOS and MACS. Yup, quite a collection.
We are trying to standardize on a direction for school systems.
We have proposals ranging from a local lan in each school to one BIG
central machine and terminals at the office and the schools.

I don't want to say much else because I want to hear any and all
ideas that have or are being tried at different school boards.

Some questions: Are you staying with one vendor? are you staying
with one platform? Are you going central or distributed? Should
the hardware come first or should the software( school package )
come first.

Please reply by mail.
thanx in advance
	bob		(uunet!bdofed!bob)