We made a move to OpenOffice on all student use computers (labs, carts,
library) this year. That coupled with our use of Google Docs has left few
complaints about missing MS Office. Those complaints have mostly been early
in the year about compatibility with Office on teacher computers but all
have that has gone away. The only major issue I ran into is installing on
Mac OS 10.3 computers (it just doesn't work) - so after upgrading, we are
all ok. It definitely saves us a LOT of money!
As far as staff goes though, I couldn't take MS Excel away from our business
and admission offices (power excel users) and I'm not sure if OO
Spreadsheets is as good (though I do not know for sure).
Good luck,
page
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Tim Rice <tim.rice@kcd.org> wrote:
> As an exclusive OpenOffice user for the past 6 years I am seriously
> considering moving the entire organization to this format. Has anyone
> moved completely to OpenOffice (students and faculty)? If so, did you make
> the default save a .doc or did you stick with the native OO format? What
> problems to you encounter? What benefits (cost is our primary concern-
> roughly a $15-$20k savings from Microsoft Office)?
>
> Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.
>
> Timothy Rice
> Director of Technology
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