On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 05:25 -0700, Gabriel Gurley wrote: > With that being said, I do think the situation is getting better in > regards to the perception of OpenOffice.org by IT staff in academia. > And I still support the fundamental goals of OOo4Kids. > But from > personal experience, I also know that there is still a fair amount of > bias again OpenOffice.org by IT staff, no matter the desires by > teachers to use it. An online version could certainly be a viable > solution for that particular problem.
I didn't intend to give the impression I'm against OOo4kids, just that marketing and how it affects technical design is important. Education is a specialised market with a lot of issues that often even those working as teachers in schools don't appreciate. With OOo's main competitors going to cloud it seems prudent to at least explore that option for OOo. A thin client server could probably host more than 100 concurrent users on basic WP etc. I wonder if such a set up could be sustainable paid for by advertising? If hardware keeps falling in price and bandwidth increasing there must come a point when it would do. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
