I like this article. It explains many things:
http://goodereader.com/blog/electron...school-system/
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The Russian educational system is providing an old west style free for all that is encouraging many tech companies to vie with important contracts. Recently a top level decision was made to digitize the Russian educational school system. This has promoted companies to vie for contracts to be one of the technologies used in thousands of schools. This obviously means its a very important race to be the one to prospectively over a hundred million in sales.
Right now in Russia many pilot programs are being launched with competing devices to find the right solution. Different tablets and e-readers who have firmware geared towards schools are jockeying for position.
The two most important companies who have the best chance to being selected have a tremendous amount of experience and a solid management team to make it happen. Both Plastic Logic and Ectaco are considered the front runners in being the company selected and earn a huge payday.
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