On 04/28/2007 12:30 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > > I guess the idea was to get our IT department to recognize that a filter > for odt files is now a necessary thing and seeing that OpenOffice fills > in the gap from the point of view of productivity as well as price that > it could be considered as a replacement for MSOffice. Our budgets are > constantly under pressure. I also promote the suite at school and > encourage the students avoid using pirated software which is why so many > of our students are using OpenOffice at home. They are also aware that > they can also save in .doc/ppt etc formats, but if they could they would > save in odt and not worry about the file format changes. > > I think I will do as Manfred suggested and try to direct IT to the > daVinci page. > > Marc
And, in addition to OOo, you might want to direct the schools to Sun's StarOffice site; they can obtain a license and training for free. SW is fully compatible with OOo & in fact OOo came from StarOffice. http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/education.jsp http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/solutions/staroffice.html Free training tutorials & guides are here: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/comm_invest/giving/so8/ Note: to OOo beginners - the above guides are also suitable and useful for OOo. That combined with OOo & I'd say that your schools can save a considerable amount in their annual budgets. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
