Very interesting news Michael, thanks for sharing it. This is how FOSS grows. It's no longer just the early adopters, individual enthusiasts and large corporations that are making in-roads.
Cheers CDRigby On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Michael Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi All, > > Just to let you all know that over the coming months, the number of > OpenOffice.org users in Singapore will be jumping up by a few thousand more. > > Overseas Family School (OFS) have just announced their switch to > OpenOffice.org with all faculty and students making the switchover (3500+ > users on 1500 computers) > > http://www.ofs.edu.sg/about-ofs/announcements/openoffice/ > > OFS has donated SGD15,000 to OpenOffice.org and they have authored and made > freely available a number of training videos that may be useful for others > making the switch to OpenOffice.org. See: > > http://www.ofs.edu.sg/help-desk/using-open-office/ > > This has been a long time coming, as OFS, a large user of Mac OS X, have > been patiently waiting for the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 which has > native Mac OS X support. > > There has been much planning, testing, implementation and training work, > with the faculty beginning the migration of documents over to ODF in January > 2008. It is really great to now reach the point where OpenOffice.org and ODF > are becoming ubiquitous within this large international school in Singapore. > > Michael. > > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet >
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