From talking with two PG County teachers (Score 1)

I found that SchoolMax operates the entire county's 4500 teachers and 1000 counselors on what they believe is a single web server, not a cluster as is the norm for applications of this scale. Apparently either the county didn't do its appropriate due-diligence, or SchoolMax sold them a bag of lies, but apparently they thought the system would be sufficient to handle the user load. They'd been having severe problems with it all last school year as well, to the poiunt where these teachers were doubly entering all their grades, attendance, etc onto paper as well as into SchoolMax.

A school system as large as PG county has a responsibility for doing the appropriate research into what products and services it chooses to use. It's a shame that there's such poor leadership and such a knowledge vacuum.