Similiar Situation (Score 1)

I am a High School student at Cumberland Valley HS in Pennsylvania, and I had a similiar situation occur. Under a project with the gifted program I, and a group of other students in the gifted program, we were to get a server for the school up dealing with students and teachers uploading and downloading homework. Our HS is run on Novel 5 (grrr!) and the school's net admin told us it would be a good idea to run off of windows NT Server 4.0 because it is more stable. I really doubt that he has ever heard of linux before. My teacher wanted to follow what the Network Admin at our High School suggested, but through some work with the school board I was able to get a Linux box up instead of a NT box. But as far as having all of the schools computers run off Linux, it would be very unrealistic at my school. We have over 6,000 students across 4 grade levels and well over 500+ pentium 3 500mhz compaq computers. Most of the students and teachers have a heard time saving documents in MS Word. So Linux would be leaps and bounds ahead of them