[Technical] OpenOffice.org High school case study

[Donna Benjamin]

This ran on Slashdot....

"NewsForge (a Slashdot sister site) is carrying a 2-year OpenOffice  
case-study on a Detroit high school who switched from Windows NT and  
MS Office 97 to Linux and OpenOffice. The results? Better than  
expected. In 2003, the school, who saved over $100,000 in the  
process, converted 110 Windows NT machines to Linux with OpenOffice.  
After several surprising developments, including OpenOffice's ability  
to open old Word documents that even the new Word versions were  
having troubles with, the school now uses it almost exclusively, has  
classes on it's use, and encourages students to use it whenever  
possible. From the article: 'While OpenOffice.org is now used by 100%  
of the faculty and students in the school (though some administrative  
staff still uses Microsoft Office due to specific software  
requirements), students are not required to use OpenOffice.org when  
working at home. However, a presentation is given to students at the  
start of every school year to advise them on the use of  
OpenOffice.org, the availability of free copies, and potential  
problems of converting from Microsoft Office formats.'"

Full Story:
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/18/1944227



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