Sharjah school dumps high-cost software for open-source applications

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 2, 2008 9:10 AM
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Education provider Scholars International Academy (SIA) has opted for open-source software and thin client systems, in a bid to save parents the cost of proprietary software. Sharjah-based SIA chose a number of freely available open-source programs - including OpenOffice and the Solaris 10 operating system - to run on top of its new thin clients and servers from Sun Microsystems, which it finished installing last year.

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