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The European Union's interoperability page reports:
Using open source in school greatly reduces the time needed to troubleshoot PCs, [as indicated by] the case of the Colegio Agustinos de León (Augustinian College of León, Spain). In 2013, the school switched to using Ubuntu Linux for its desktop PCs in [classrooms] and offices. For teachers and staff, the amount of technical issues decreased by 63 per cent and in the school's computer labs by 90 per cent, says Fernando Lanero, computer science teacher and head of the school's IT department.
[...] "One year after we changed PC operating system, I have objective data on Ubuntu Linux", Lanero tells Muy Linux [English Translation], a Spanish Linux news site. By switching to Linux, incidents such as computer viruses, system degradation, and many diverse technical issues disappeared instantly.
The change also helps the school save money, he adds. Not having to purchase [licenses] for proprietary operating systems, office suites, and anti-virus tools has already saved about €35,000 in the 2014-2015 school year, Lanero says. "Obviously it is much more interesting to invest that money in education."
[...] The biggest hurdle for the IT department was the use of electronic whiteboards. The school uses 30 of such whiteboards, and their manufacturer [Hitachi] does not support the use of Linux. Lanero got the Spanish Linux community involved, and "after their hard work, Ubuntu Linux now includes support for the whiteboards, so now everything is working as it should".
[...] Issues [with proprietary document formats] were temporarily resolved by using a cloud-based proprietary office solution, says Lanero, giving the IT department time to complete the switch to open standards-based office solutions. The school now mostly uses the LibreOffice suite of office tools.
[...] "Across the country, schools have contacted me to hear about the performance and learn how to undertake similar migrations."
As I always say, simply avoid manufacturers with lousy support and FOSS is just the ticket.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 26 2015, @02:25PM
For me the problem with doing away with native apps in favor of cloud versions is that connectivity in the United States is crap. I have a business connection in NYC and it's still chancy. The incredible security and privacy nightmare of the NSA and its brethren criminal organizations aside, productivity would take a hit on a regular basis if I had to rely on the cloud for anything. Maybe it's a different story in parts of the world that have 1st World broadband, like South Korea, but the United States does not seem to be cloud-ready.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday May 26 2015, @04:46PM
So USA is still a 1st world country? ;-)
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday May 26 2015, @04:56PM
None of the browser driven apps at my employer are commercial public cloud, at least not that I can think of.
A $250K machine with an embedded web interface (think of a stereotypical network printer, but running an engineering tool or production machine instead of a boring printer), OK.
A box provided by the manufacturer that plugs into our network and supposedly should be treated as an appliance although its really just a windows or linux install with apache and some support code. An example of this architecture (that we actually don't use) would be github enterprise. OK.
A virtual image on the private vmware cluster and the private NAS farm. OK. I have like 20 of them doing various things. None of them have any public access. I don't even know where they're located today although I think they're in the midwest somewhere. They could be at the coastal centers again for all I know. It really doesn't matter.