Thanks to our super awesome testing coordinator, I had the luxury of being relief duty. This allowed me to read all seven of our selected readings for this week's course. Overall, i found the readings very informative and eye-opening!!!
The one that most stood out was the paper about using open source programs. All you hear about in the local news are the budget cuts that are happening across each school district. In one paragraph, the author outlined three open source programs that could replace the likes of Microsoft XP, Microsoft Office, and the other I can't remember right now. On average, the buyer could save $140 per computer. If that school has 20,000 computers (think larger urban school districts), that district could have saved $2.8 million!!!! This would have made budget cuts a lot more feasible...plus, imagine all the other resources we could be using that $2.8 million to fund
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