Advanced

Open source snub in UK schools

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 5 comments
The Inquirer; By Mark Ballard 		Mail this story
Print this story

The open source community was bitterly disappointed today after the UK appointed an unknown consultancy to run an historic programme of advocacy in schools. International big hitters had piled behind UK open source houses bidding for a Becta contract to set up an open source community in the schools sector. It was seen as a breakthrough - an indication that convicted monopolist Microsoft was losing its grip on the sector. But Becta gave the open source community an almighty slap in the face when it turned down their three bids and awarded the business to a consultancy with no links to the open source community, said representatives of the community.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: Community, Microsoft

» Get new stories by e-mail: nightly or as they are published

« Return to the newswire homepage

Comments (5)

purplewizard ·
I've always got my doubts about companies (or even Free Software projects to be fair) that have websites saying so little and offering no detail. I kept looking hoping to see that it mentioned Free Software in some area. I couldn't see a thing and just to reiterate, their web site leaves a feeling of saying (telling me) nothing!

Someone tell me I'm wrong please (with some detail!)
tracyanne ·
Yes they do leave a lot to be desired in their information about themselves.

I can tell you this. They use php, the server appears to be a non Microsoft server and their Html headers contain the following

!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

AlphaPlus Consultancy - Home description" content="AlphaPlus Consusltancy Ltd, Leaders in assessment, research and evaluation in training" /> keywords" content="AlphaPlus, Consusltancy, assessment, research, evaluation, training, e-assessment, e-solutions, e-portfolios, diplomas" /> Generator" content="Joomla! - Copyright (C) 2005 - 2007 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved." />





The pages are generated by Joomla
azerthoth ·
tracyanne,please edit that, there are 2 excessive run on lines that break page formatting.
tracyanne ·
Is that better, it looked fine on my browser.

Post a comment

A free account is needed to post. Write your comment here first: your text is kept in this browser while you sign up or log in, and is waiting for you when you come back.

Your message:
|||||
10
Markdown: **bold**, *italic*, [text](https://link), - lists, > quotes, $x^2$ for math. Formatting help

Sign up and post (it is free)  or  Log in and post