An interesting case study is the Bainbridge Island (Washington) school district where they decided to go to Open Office and took the monies that normally went to Microsoft Office and applied them to professional development. From the reports I heard at the recent NECC in San Antonio, the experience has turned out quite well.
On a different but related note, I find it interesting that this is all happening in Microsoft's "backyard"...
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Hoover Chan chan@sacredsf.org
Director of Technology
Schools of the Sacred Heart
2222 Broadway St.
San Francisco, CA 94115
----- "Renee Ramig" <rramig@sevenhillsschool.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if any school has totally done away with using
> Microsoft Office and switched totally to using Open Office.
>
> We are still Using Office 2003, and the thought of spending thousands
> of dollars to upgrade to 2007 is just not appealing to me. If you do
> use Open Office for all or most things, can you share with men of
> anything you have found missing in Open Office. Do students, teachers
> and administrators use Open Office, or just one or two of these
> groups?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Renee Ramig
> Seven Hills School
>
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