Comment Educational Markets (Score 1) 472
Maybe I can help a bit with the educational point of view. When teaching children to be productive and "employable" members of our society, schools usually survey their local businesses to see what productivity software is the most used. They then base there software purchases on the results of the audit.
But keep in mind that MSOffice & the alternatives are an extremely small part of the software equation for public schools. Most IT directors is school districts would seriously consider Linux as a viable OS for classroom PC's if a resonable selection of academic software were available. For Linux, where is my math software, skill builder software, pratical application software, frog disection software, test generating software etc. etc.
Linux distributors should seriously consider working closely with the manufacturers of the 50 top "curriculum" software titles if they ever hope to have a prayer at the multi billion dollar educational market.
But keep in mind that MSOffice & the alternatives are an extremely small part of the software equation for public schools. Most IT directors is school districts would seriously consider Linux as a viable OS for classroom PC's if a resonable selection of academic software were available. For Linux, where is my math software, skill builder software, pratical application software, frog disection software, test generating software etc. etc.
Linux distributors should seriously consider working closely with the manufacturers of the 50 top "curriculum" software titles if they ever hope to have a prayer at the multi billion dollar educational market.
