[Year 12 IPM] Microsoft Office Licencing Query

[Roland Gesthuizen]

G'day Tim, I am also very impressed with OpenOffice 2, especially the 
support for the new Open Document standards. The .DBF database packs a 
solid punch with an interface very much like MS Access.  
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1758245

Next year, we have every intention of using this in our ICT classes, 
encouraging students to install and use this at home. With some minor 
mods, I should even be able to recycle most of my old notes. Cooh heh?  :-)

Regards Roland

Tim Kitchen wrote:

>We have been using Star Office /Open Office for about 5 years as our
>main application software at Strathcona. Combining this with a Linux OS
>has saved lots. Open source is an answer to many a prayer.
>
>Tim Kitchen 
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au>
>Date: Thursday, November 3, 2005 10:20 am
>Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] Microsoft Office Licencing Query
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>>Have you considered switching to OpenOffice.org?
>>http://www.openoffice.org/
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>>- donna.
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>>On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 10:13 +1100, Brad Owens wrote:
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>>>We are an independent school currently looking to upgrade from 
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>>MS Office 2000 to MS Office 2003.  We have approximately 400 
>>workstations across the school (including primary & admin offices) 
>>and our IT techs tell me the best price we can get is just over 
>>$40K (about $100 per machine).  This seems rather high to me and 
>>would take a huge chunk (ie all) of the software budget.  I was 
>>just wondering if we were doing something wong or not talking to 
>>the right people and what others experiences were.
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>>>Any advice would be greatfully received.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Brad
>>>
>>>Brad Owens
>>>Information Technology Coordinator
>>>Maranatha Christian School
>>>(Ph): 9709 7245
>>>(Fax): 9706 1910
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