By Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal
Jeremy Fluhmann knows how to stretch a dollar. The technology director for Winters Independent School District in Winters, TX had a budget that would allow him to refresh about 50 computers a year. That’s just a fraction of the 650 to 670 end user devices he estimated his two-person IT team supports in the district. At that rate, it would take about 13 years to replace the entire population of PCs. And long before then, he pointed out, “We’d have old machines we still have to maintain.” Rather than bemoaning the slow speed of the refresh treadmill, Fluhmann has decided to step off and has begun implementing a mix of open source software and virtual desktops to extend the life of district equipment.
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