[ug-bosug] Challenge: Teaching Microsoft Windows effectively on a Solaris Computer.

[Sriram Narayanan]

On 4/13/07, G N S <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote:
> No point over-engineering the solutions such as VMware if windows *has* to
> be taught. Multiple issues - technical/legal/administrative will need to be
> dealt with. Legal issue being the trickiest since these are always current
> and may change at any point of time.
>

Indeed. I also think that the school would have to buy academic
licenses for Visual Studio - MS would definitely start to pay visits
if they hear of folks running VB on Wine at a school.

And if they do find VB on Wine, they they'll change licensing
requirements if required to ensure that Visual Studio products cannot
be run on anything apart from Windows, etc. I was wondering if all
that sounds far fetched, but with MS evangelizing very much and having
lots of campus ambassadors etc, they're likely to do their best to
keep anything non-Windows away.

> Just setup windows and teach windows. But do have it as dual boot to teach
> students non-windows topics.
>

+1 to that. And if students don't choose to boot into Linux, then
Cygwin on Windows would be an option too.

The NCR FOSS folks would perhaps be of help here.

-- Sriram