[LINK] Lenovo, Microsoft, Adobe win NSW schools contract

[Brendan Scott]

Stilgherrian wrote:
> On 02/04/2009, at 10:13 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>> that should be each tech looks after 500 computers - which is maybe  
>> one or two
>> techs per school.
> 
> That strikes me as an insanely small number of support staff. Only one  
> tech per 500 computers? The number I always had in my head was one  
> tech per 50 or 100 desktops in a corporate environment. Surely a  
> school will be more hostile! Can anyone provide figures on current  
> practice?

More hostile, but also presumably with less accountability for the techs/lower response time expectations?