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Hoover Chan chan@sacredsf.org
Technology Director
Schools of the Sacred Heart
2222 Broadway St.
San Francisco, CA 94115
----- "Renee Ramig" <rramig@sevenhillsschool.org> wrote:
> This will mean looking at alternative sources like Satellite broadband
> options. These are expensive, right now, so this will mean a larger
> chunk of budget allocated toward internet access.
>
> We are not rural, but we cannot get cable to our school. So, the
> school a mile away can get a 50 meg business cable connection for $250
> a month. We are paying $800 for two T1 lines coming in and getting
> only 3 megs on a good day. (Our ATT lines are not great, and usually
> get closer to 2 megs). We are maxing out our bandwidth and looking at
> alternatives, but these are $1500 - $2000 a month. This will mean
> reorganizing our budget and moving to more open source solutions to
> save money there and putting more of our funds into our internet
> connection.
>
> Renee Ramig
> Seven Hills School
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A forum for independent school educators on behalf of Sister
> Elizabeth
> Sent: Mon 10/25/2010 10:43 AM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: Blackbaud Version 8
>
> Tell the cable providers that! I'd love to have some options or some
> back up. I've talked to Verizon about FIOS and they laughed at me -
> literally. They expect it will be 15 - 20 years before they get fiber
> to us if they ever bother to do it at all.
>
> Sister Elizabeth
>
> >>> Renee Ramig <rramig@sevenhillsschool.org> 10/25/2010 1:07 PM >>>
> I think within the next 24 month, just about everything will be in the
> cloud. Microsoft's new product is Office365 where everything is in
> the cloud which will be released in about 6 months. There is no
> longer a client. Although, they have not come out and said they will
> stop creating a client-based product, I just have a hard time seeing
> this happening. There is less and less need for companies to deal
> with tech support for end users trying to update their client-based
> software. Moving everything to the cloud reduces cost, reduces
> "walls" where things can be accessed, and helps to manage security for
> smaller companies.
>
> I realize this can be an issue for areas with internet issues, but
> with more and more things moving to the cloud, I think that rural area
> solutions will need to become better and less expensive, so the lack
> of reliable internet stops being an issue.
>
> Renee Ramig
> Seven Hills School
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A forum for independent school educators on behalf of Sister
> Elizabeth
> Sent: Mon 10/25/2010 9:14 AM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: Blackbaud Version 8
>
> I'll have to say that being dependent upon the Internet for access to
> FE, EE and RE, is probably going to cause us to move to another
> system.
> We are in a rural area and I just can't see having all our data in
> the
> cloud. We are down too much to risk that and we only have one way to
> get to the net, there are not options available in our location.
>
> I hate being forced to move by vendors!
>
>
>
> Sister Elizabeth
> Powhatan School
>
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