A recent post at ZDNet blogs asserts that schools are similar to corporate enterprise buyers. The author suggests centralizing applications and ensuring staff have the appropriate training before taking on open source solutions. From the blog post:
I would add that the solution you choose may also drive your best-and-brightest. In a conventional enterprise this is your IT shop. In a school setting this is your computer club geeks. If your system is running Linux, that’s what they will learn.
