[ale] Anyone familiar with Modis IT Resource Management company here in Atlanta

[Daniel Howard]

Fellow ALE's,

Our conversion of our school to Linux K12LTSP has gone well.  We have 
now converted the entire school to Linux thin clients (except for 
teacher's Win XP PCs and a handful of stand alone Win PCs for special 
needs students that have expensive software without Linux drivers), and 
it has gone extremely well.  A few of you have come to see it for 
themselves, and I reiterate the invitation for others to see what a 
difference a stable, secure OS and modern software and the right 
architecture for older PCs can make.

One of our next steps is to have an outside consultant from a company 
called Modis IT Resource Management come and evaluate the conversion and 
its impact on the school and potentially on the district.  Googling them 
produces several instances of Linux projects in which they've been 
involved, so it doesn't appear that they are a pro-MS house, but I was 
wondering if anyone in this group knew of them or any stories regarding 
their work in Linux.  My hope is that this consultant will be completely 
unbiased and as such will be overwhelmingly in favor of our conversion 
and recommend it to the district IT folks.  Any advice, including red 
flag statements/questions he might make/ask that indicate a bias against 
Linux, are appreciated.

Daniel