I know what you mean Pete,
I work for a public school system, and it is a major fight whenever I introduce an OpenSource solution. By using OpenSource solutions, I have provided better solutions to problems, and saved much money. But, it has not been easy, and there have been few, if any thanks.
I know this is an old thread, and also OT by this point but I had to interject here... I used to work for the public school system here, and while I was there, school administration decided that the open source centralized rather inexpensive but very well done, and very usable attendance/grades/financial/discipline database should be moved to a windows based, de-centralized, solution that required a huge ms sql server for synchronization, and a pretty hefty server in each school, we're talking 20 some schools... And it didn't even preform nearly as well...
In my opinion, this was a step backwards...
Anyway, sorry for the wasted bandwidth!!
-Russ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]
