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

Re:School district builds own software to handle student dat... by donw on Sunday January 20, 2013 @03:18PM (#5088048)

It's a little amazing, when you think about it, that a lot of people think you need to spend $100 million to build software to manage grades and attendance.

Especially as geeks in the startup world often build far more complicated software on budgets quite a bit smaller than $5 million.

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Re:School district builds own software to handle student dat... by sopooneo on Sunday January 20, 2013 @08:15PM (#5089205)

Even if all it did was grade and attendance. It is not trivial to get that right. My own little pet project http://gradezilla.com took years of refinement before it could handle just those things. Tying in with other aspects of a schools system makes it many multiple more complicated.

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Re:School district builds own software to handle student dat... by donw on Monday January 21, 2013 @04:30AM (#5090678)

That's fair, but it's still not a $100 million investment.

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