*** I would have to agree whole-heartedly with Glenn re: Don't give in to
a few teachers. We have a solid LTSP installation base and are continuing
as quickly as possible but it's an uphill battle. There are always those
few "vocal" people who
don't pay the bills that sometimes get in the way. An approach we have
taken is try to explain why it is important to switch. We explain the very
real threat of MS Audits by printing the various articles easily found on
the web and distributing them. We also bring this threat of audits to our
superiors (ie: School Superintendant, Trustees). So if a hard line teacher
goes over our heads they get the same response back. In the past I
handled the MS Office / Windows problem like this. When someone
"demands" windows/office I say "No problem, we'll dual boot your systems -
both Linux & Windows. I simply have two questions"
1. How many Windows Licences have you purchased?
2. How many Office Licences have you purchased?
If they only have x licenses then that's all they get - no more. If they
complain about it they are asked by our superiors: "Where are your
licenses?"
On 1 Jul 2002, Glenn Jacobson wrote:
> Dieter -
>
> I cannot answer your questions about Crossover, except to say that
> you cannot legally allow multiple users to use MS Office 2000
> unless you have licenses for each user. This fact and the fact
> that Crossover cannot not, and probably will not be able to use
> Office XP means that you should first "sell" Open Office or
> Star Office before giving into those who do not want to change.
>
> Funny but they do not want to change, unless its a new version of
> MS Office that they want to run. At which time they will use the
> fact that Crossover cannot run Office XP against Linux and the
> LTSP.
>
> For the sake of these people as well as your school and you as
> the administrator, do not give into the pressure of a few. I've
> seen it over and over, those who are the most against leaving MS
> are the most pleasantly surprised about well Star Office or Open
> Office actually allow them to spend more time working rather
> than swearing at their PC.
>
> Glenn J.
> --------------------------
> Hallo,
>
> Some teachers in our school want use MS-Office - I'm the sysadm and want
> to
> use linux with the ltsp :-)
>
> Now my question - when I install the crossover-office and then
> MS-office2000
> can severel pupils use this office at the same time? If this possible,
> in
> wich way I've to install the MS-office - as a network-installation or
> the
> "normal" installation for a standalone computer?
>
> Thanks for helping
> Dieter
>
>
>
>
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