Linux: June 2004 Archives
It is a sign of the growth of Linux when major technology companies are publishing roadmaps as to how to integrate Linux into your enterprise.
At Tipperary Institute we have adopted Linux into our Labs for many of our courses and with Sun's strategy for Java desktop and star office, it is becoming a reality that large institutions are adopting Linux. One has to only look to countries like China and eastern Europe where Linux is being given serious consideration. In Ireland Beaumont hospital recently moved their IT infrastructure across to Linux. This comprised of over 10,000 pc's.
Brian Harvey from Berkeley states that
"We tell our students that the software they'll use throughout most of their career hasn't been written yet, so they'd better learn the general principles and learn how to learn details as they go along, not feeling that they're limited to the tools they use in our courses,"
At Tipperay Institute we adopt the same philosophy, Linux is covered in our practical labs for various subjects such as Operating Systems, Data Communications and Computer Networks. But we expect the students to be able to adopt to whatever Operating Systems that will evolve in the future.
It is interesting to see that Marist college in New York is expanding its Linux curriculum and will be offering a new class in "open source development methodology,"
I will watch with interest to see if these more focussed type courses will be accepted by industry.
As a third level institution we have to accept that the software and hardware industry is made up of both Open source and proprietary standards. Therefore our students need exposure to both the Microsofts and GNU licensed apps of this world.
