NoOp a écrit :
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.
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Thanks for the note and the links. The Ontario Ministry of Education
(Canada) has actually licensed the use of StarOffice for all of its
schools but very few boards in the province have installed the suite.
Change happens slowly. I personally would prefer to promote the OOo
rather than StarOffice as the students where I teach can mostly not
afford to purchase any software. OOo allows them to work at the same
level as their richer counterparts. Although I do understand that OOo
came from StarOffice originally but I think the reverse is truer today
where StarOffice now gets all of its code from OOo development (except
for the proprietary code it includes).
Marc
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