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<body>On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 14:58:54 -0400, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The real issue with that excuse is it's just an excuse. They can get outstanding support from RedHat or from local consultants. What they really want is some one else to blame when something fails. If the school provides all the support, not just reboot monkeys, then a system failure, or worse - data loss -, is due to the school technical team. The larger the the school system the more likely to want to shield the *decision makers* on the technical side. Remember the old addage "no ever got fire for buying IBM"? Well in school systems it's Microsoft and/or Apple.</div></div></blockquote><div><br>
</div><div>Two issues I see with governmental bureaucracies is that they will not change unless forced and most of the decision makers do not anything about any technical topic (not just computers/IT). The support issue is buck passing; something bureaucracies are good at.</div><div><br></div><div><snip><i><i><i><i><i><br>
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