I am presently going to Illinois State University and I tried to get OO approved for all the computers. However they could not because of some contract they have with MS. ( I am working to get them to break this contract- which I feel is an illegal contract- but I have not be to do this yet).
However, my old school, Illinois Central College, just implemented OO on all their computers. They are also selling the copies to students at the book store for cost of the cd (I think $2). I even went down to IT at ICC and talked to them to see if they had any ideas for ISU and the guy was helpful but could not give me much advice. Here is their web site advertising this implementation: http://www.icc.edu/technologyServices/techNews_openOffice.asp Hope this helps.. On 10/12/06, Bernhard Dippold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Dave, David Bird schrieb: > Currently, they use Microsoft Office 2003. I don't know if they have taken > the upgrade to MS Office 2007 into consideration, but I am sure that it > will > be costly. I was really wondering if there were any places (websites etc) > that I could use to try and persuade the college into moving over to OOo. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Would you mind to subscribe to the main marketing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are the experts probably being able to help you. In the Marketing Project (http://marketing.openoffice.org) there are links to marketing material, perhaps this is helpful, too. At http://why.openoffice.org we try to give informations why to use OOo, even if there are several quite interesting informations the page is still not really finished yet. Best regards Bernhard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
