France’s ministry of education has moved 2,500 servers from 30 local education authorities to Linux as part of their open source investment. This comes in an attempt to avoid lock in contracts with vendors. The cost of proprietary licenses along with forced upgrades are something they hope to avoid by eventually moving all systems to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Archive for November, 2009
French Education Migrates To Red Hat
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Minister For Education Writes Typo Filled Memo, Encourages Better Spelling
Monday, November 16th, 2009The French education minister believes there should be a greater focus on spelling, however the memo he sent out stating this was riddled with errors. Dozens of grammatical and spelling mistakes were found throughout a press pack given to journalists ahead of the new school year beginning. The mistakes were so bad that commentators have labeled the minister, Luc Chatel, a “dunce” and claimed that even a non native French speaker would spot the countless errors.
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European Professors Weary Of Swine Flu
Sunday, November 1st, 2009This week 270 million pupils will return to class in Europe, leading health officials to fear there may be a possible rise in the number of swine flu cases being diagnosed daily. In France, schools where students are showing any swine fly symptoms within a week of their return will be closed to prevent further spread of the potentially fatal H1N1 virus. The UK and US however plan on keeping schools open unless it appears the health care system is becoming overwhelmed and will be unable to handle the influx of new cases presented to them.
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