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Offline Bill Bixby

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Re: New Contract Update
« Reply #75 on: January 12, 2012, 02:31:12 PM »
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Re: New Contract Update
« Reply #76 on: January 12, 2012, 02:53:55 PM »
I suppose anyone reading this thread will think we're IT dinosaurs, afraid of change and the future. I think if we had no exposure to what life has been like with a managed service through C2k we would probably welcome these changes with open arms, always wary, but willing to give it a chance. I think with us it's a case of 'once bitten, twice shy'. But we've seen what a managed service is like, it's advantages and disadvantages, and will always be sceptical of it.
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Re: New Contract Update
« Reply #77 on: January 12, 2012, 02:58:41 PM »
Cant login either  :o
 
Aww well maybe it will be alright on the night  ::)
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Re: New Contract Update
« Reply #78 on: January 12, 2012, 03:06:04 PM »
 A lot of this makes sense - I can see why SIMS would be better as a cloud based service, as well as Office-type applications.

But there is no way the schools can go entirely thin client - I can't see Sibelius, or Solidworks etc working across a WAN line - not to mention Moving Image Arts.

 We had guys out last year surveying for the optic fibre link, and they said it would be a year-long project to get all the schools cabled, so our SIMS servers and backup units will stay until then.

The biggest problem will be the total reliance on the fibre link to the data centre, and also the capability of the filtering system. If we think it hasn't been reliable with a 2MB link, how is it going to manage with 100MB?

If anything, our job will be busier because there will be more devices linked into the system.
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« Reply #79 on: January 12, 2012, 03:14:26 PM »
Have any of you tried signing up to that cloud system at

https://www.northgate-academy.com/RegForm/UI/RegistrationForm.aspx

I know it's only supposed to be a free trial but doesn't seem to be working too well for me   ???

 
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Re: New Contract Update
« Reply #80 on: January 12, 2012, 03:19:06 PM »
Quote from: Marc on January 12, 2012, 03:14:26 PM
Have any of you tried signing up to that cloud system at

https://www.northgate-academy.com/RegForm/UI/RegistrationForm.aspx

I know it's only supposed to be a free trial but doesn't seem to be working too well for me   ???

 

Anyone tried it on a non-C2K machine?
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Re: New Contract Update
« Reply #81 on: January 12, 2012, 03:27:19 PM »
Not working for me on either C2k or Legacy  :o
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Re: New Contract Update
« Reply #82 on: January 12, 2012, 03:32:32 PM »
So it IS going to be pay-per-user....so they get 300 million to set this up and fleece the schools for using the thing? 

Good business I suppose...
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Re: New Contract Update
« Reply #83 on: January 12, 2012, 03:36:24 PM »
Why do it this way - why not stick everyone thru google??
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Re: New Contract Update
« Reply #84 on: January 12, 2012, 03:48:37 PM »
Quote from: Stephen on January 12, 2012, 03:36:24 PM
Why do it this way - why not stick everyone thru google??

 
Because even Northgate cannot charge ?300 million just to connect to Google Docs.  :(
 
OR CAN THEY  ;D
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Re: New Contract Update
« Reply #85 on: January 13, 2012, 08:52:27 AM »
Just wondering when we will be told what existing machines will work on the new contract
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Re: New Contract Update
« Reply #86 on: January 13, 2012, 08:55:09 AM »
Quote from: Outlaw27 on January 13, 2012, 08:52:27 AM
Just wondering when we will be told what existing machines will work on the new contract

Probably at the last minute as usual - we're always the last to find out!
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Re: New Contract Update
« Reply #87 on: January 13, 2012, 08:56:36 AM »
Quote from: Outlaw27 on January 13, 2012, 08:52:27 AM
Just wondering when we will be told what existing machines will work on the new contract
Probably about the time the lorry arrives with any new kit.
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« Reply #88 on: January 13, 2012, 09:02:54 AM »
If its Cloud based anything should work as they say in their blurb "personal devices such as smart phones, IPads, tablet PCs and laptops"  ;D
 
However as we all know what is promised and what you get can be different  ???
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Re: New Contract Update
« Reply #89 on: January 13, 2012, 09:04:14 AM »
its Cloud based. We won't need any new kit.  Just the big 200Mb BB (notice they word that 'up to 200Mb/s'  - very few schools will actually get this I am sure).
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