Typically school divisions will send a dozen or so individuals to something like this.

School divisions know that memos are the primary means we communicate with them.

Virginia's constitution provides for a great deal of autonomy for the local school divisions.

Unless we have been requested, it is not helping to send these individuals.

They don't realize, but when we hear them chanting our names and yelling stuff about our school, that gets us going. They don't understand that.

Typically, if you've got a single blade for a single desktop, those servers are going to be down two-thirds of the day after people head home -- and that represents a pretty significant infrastructure investment. IBM is making the pitch that if you can support the same number of desktops with one-eighth the number of servers, you're going to end up with much higher utilization of your IT infrastructure.