[Gllug] Re: The BETT education exhibition at Olympia

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:01:45PM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Mon 02 Jan, Chris Bell wrote:
> > Hello,
> >    The annual BETT ICT-in-education exhibition at Olympia is on January
> > 11-14. It used to be dominated by Acorn, but more recently Microsoft and
> > RM-Nimbus. SuSE appeared for a while. Usually free entry if you fill in the
> > form.
> > 
> > www.bettshow.com
> > 
> > 
>    I went along today for a quick look.
<snip>
> 
> http://www.schoolforge.org.uk
> 
> http://www.lamsinternational.com
> 
> http://www.trainingcamp.co.uk

I could be missing someting, but I can't see how www.trainingcamp.co.uk
qualifies as open source. It does provide (amongst many others) LPI
training. None of the menu items work and the site is flash (arrrrrgh!).

How come you say the government wants 10-15 year contracts but is
cracking down on lock-in contracts? Surely the former isn't far from the
latter, given the rapid pace of change in the IT h/w industry.

The picture you paint of government policy sounds grim for kids and
schools. The fixed term contract that covers nearly everything seems
like a sure-fire way for schools to pay over the odds in what should be
a buyers market, given the plummeting cost of h/w and the option of free
s/w.

Still, can't expect government to be up to speed on this. Pity they are
centralising policy by forcing schools to buy products in a fixed way,
though. Tony + Co are not best placed to impliment IT in schools in
Hull!

That is just MHO! :-)

Ben.

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