[NBLUG/talk] SRJC cources

[Mark Street]

Hi,

I think this is a very good question, I have posed it to the CIS department 
many times in the past in many different ways..sometimes I think they got 
sick of my candor..  I think my buddy Sean Kirkpatrick brought it up again 
today on our CIS department mailing list... something about not opening up 
Word docs for fear of attack and how we should try alternatives like Open 
Office.  I tried to get a Linux Desktop course going through community 
courses that introduced all the desktop applications, but it never flew.

I think the answer lies somewhere between market, marketing, student 
population, politics, tenure, change, fear, choice, Adobe, ; ).  Enrollment 
tanked in 2001 when I was writing the Linux Admin courses, I taught them 
every semester until 2003 I believe.. until enrollment really hit bottom...  
Since then we have had bare minimum offerings.

There really hasn't been anything new offered for quite some time.... there 
still isn't IMHO....  On to bigger and better things...  I have an 80 seat 
Asterisk VOIP implementation in a couple of weeks.  More Linux into the 
server room, knocked out two Doze boxes with 1 fell swoop and replacing more 
of them with VMWare server running on the Penguin Computing 1U.

On Wednesday December 6 2006 11:13 am, Cal Herrmann wrote:
> Fine on Linux courses, but question, when is SRJC going to offer
> OpenOffice, rather than just Micosoft?

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