Yes. I thought of this as well. Church only has so much money. Every cent counts.
It's easy to get finance for hardware.... software on the other hand. Everyone's using Microsoft Power Point for a reason in New Zealand. Cheers Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Dunford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Church opensource. > Personally I do not think this is a true representation of the > situation. A projector will cost around $3000 minimum of a > suitable size > / light output. The computer will cost maybe second hand $500. > Powerpoint costs a few hundred dollars. The cost of > powerpoint in those > scenarios is but a small part of the overall cost. And the > reason we use > powerpoint is because everyone uses it. There's no scope for > using some > other incompatible system that won't be able to read > powerpoint files. > You don't need XP to run Powerpoint. Windows 98 is perfectly > satisfactory. And you don't need to buy a whole Office package. > >
