Published 2/20/2009
by syegulalp@techweb.com (Serdar Yegulalp)
at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
Educational institutions are consistently cited as one of the best places for open source to take root and flourish. The best way to find out more about how that works is to ask the people right in the trenches, and so this week I spoke with, Scott Hershauer, Director of Technology for the Greensberg, IA Community School District, about their use of Linux and open source in a high school setting. And aside from saving money, they also cooled off the classrooms a bit.
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