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Government Technology - Stretching Resources |
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Stretching Resources
By Merrill Douglas
Government Technology
Mar 09, 2007
There's one tiny problem with personal computers: They keep getting better.
New software demands more processing power, hardware developers oblige with new machines, and before you know it, last year's top-of-the-line PC is this year's antique. That's why organizations set up regular cycles for upgrading or replacing PCs. For cash-strapped public schools, however, that's not necessarily an easy task.
Case in point: Orangeburg Consolidated School District Four in Orangeburg County, S.C. As of last summer, Randy Johnson, the district's director of technology, was responsible for 1,600 PCs used in classrooms and administrative offices across nine buildings. About 1,000 of those machines were too old to run all the software the schools needed....
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