Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Re: OpenOffice: Beyond the Cost Savings

On Feb 11, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Matt Pearson wrote:

> Did you know you can get a great software package that gives you word
> processing, spreadsheet, presentation software, web authoring, best of
> class HD movie making, photo sharing and editing, DVD creation, all
> on a
> Unix based platform with regular updates and a huge support structure
> for just $1.00? The package is called iLife and iWork and the OS is
> OSX.


I switched directly from Appleworks to iWork. Pages exports very
well to both .doc and .pdf formats. It opens docx files.


As part of a large upgrade /lease with Apple we purchased an iWork
"site license" for about $250. That is: $250 for 550 users.

Carl Campion
Archmere Academy


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