School district builds own software to handle student data, defies doubters

Re:School district builds own software to handle student dat... by d4vlx on Sunday January 20, 2013 @12:46PM (#5087518)

True but I have a lot more faith in a tightly integrated 8 person team than some off the shelf bloat-ware customization project.

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Re:School district builds own software to handle student dat... by bdunbar on Sunday January 20, 2013 @11:24PM (#5089855)

As would I.

I don't assume they _are_ tightly integrated - all the article claims is 'eight people'.

These could be crack coders. Or they could be '1 guy who kinda knows VB and 7 people learning OJT'.

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Re:School district builds own software to handle student dat... by gferrie on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @02:04AM (#5095968)

Just to clarify our staff consists of myself (IT Director for the Saanich SD) - I am the project lead/sponsor for the district. The eight people include: project manager, product tester/quality assurance, stakeholder business analyst and 5 strong Java programmers, including one developer who is one of the original creators of the PostgresQL database.

gregg

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Re:School district builds own software to handle student dat... by bdunbar on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @02:43PM (#5104868)

Fascinating - thanks for the update.

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Re:School district builds own software to handle student dat... by codygman on Sunday January 20, 2013 @06:47PM (#5088814)

As Do I, it sounds like they are partially doing this to prove a point, which means they'll likely find a way to go through with it.

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