Education

As the UK's only Becta/OGC accredited Open Source specialist, we help schools, colleges and universities achieve high performance in the face of complex challenges. Through innovative consulting and Open Source technology solutions and services, we enable public service organisations to deliver improved services while containing costs.

Bishop Fox's Community School

Bishop Fox's Community School, founded in 1522, has over 800 pupils and is set in an attractive environment in Taunton, Somerset. It has specialised status as a Business and Enterprise College and is a designated Apple Training Centre. Bishop Fox's network manager Simon King wished to undertake a complete network refresh to accompany a substantial increase in both their ICT facilities and commitment to making ICT available to the wider community. Simon approached Sirius in October of 2008. After a great deal of discussion and refining of ideas in the following months the project was carried out over the five week summer recess ahead of schedule.

The Mall School

The Mall School is is a preparatory school with 350 pupils aged from five to thirteen with an excellent academic reputation. Staff were also dissatisfied with the level of support provided to them by their Microsoft reseller. They replaced their existing network with a state of the art Linux thin-client network, offering access to a wealth of educational software at a fraction of the cost of an upgraded Microsoft-based solution.

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