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What is Microsoft Academic Alliance (MSDN AA)

Chapter 51
Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives
An initiative by Microsoft to promote the use of Microsoft’s developer tools, platforms, and servers for instruction and research by significantly reducing their price to educational institutions. In South Africa, government (i.e., nonprivate) schools can apply for free use of, inter alia, the Windows operating system and MS-Office software by teachers and learners (pupils).
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An Innovative Desktop OSS Implementation in a School
James Weller (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-999-1.ch051
Abstract
This chapter presents a case study of a migration to open source software (OSS) in a South African school. The innovative aspect of the case study lies in how the entire implementation was motivated by the collapse of the school’s public address system. It was found that an OSS-based message system provided a more cost-effective replacement option whereby the speakers in the school were replaced with low-cost workstations (i.e., legacy systems) in each classroom. Interestingly, this OSS implementation happened despite the fact that, in South Africa, Microsoft Windows and MS-Office are available free of charge to schools under Microsoft’s Academic Alliance initiative. The chapter also analyzes some critical themes for adoption of OSS in the educational environment.
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