[school-discuss] Fwd: I might have put an OOo wedge into this door

[Jim Anderson <netman1@optonline.net>]

Doug,

    First step, get mgmt familiar with an alternative to MS Office (on
Windows) and make it available to the school districts we service; next 
step, maybe some niche installations of K12LTSP; further on down the 
road, some Linux print servers and Apache (either Windows, Linux or 
upcoming NetWare version); then, ... world domination!

Jim Anderson,
Lower Hudson Regional Information Center,
New York State

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Subject: I might have put an OOo wedge into this door
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:28:23 -0500
From: Jim Anderson <netman1@optonline.net>
To: OOo Marketing List <dev@marketing.openoffice.org>

    Today was my first day back at work after an extended medical leave. 
  It was also the day of the big staff budget status meeting.  The 
governor of our state is looking to cut funding for our agency, which 
provides networking and applications support to this area's school 
districts.  He also wants to cut state funding to the schools.  So 
everybody is in a budget crunch.  The staff are all asked to provide 
some creative suggestions for solutions that we could provide to the 
school districts to help them save money.

    Sensing the opportunity, I asked if our agency has been looking into
providing the schools open source alternatives to Microsoft software.  I 
used the example of the OpenOffice.org suite as a replacement for 
Microsoft Office.  The schools would save a substantial amount of money 
and in return they would get an office suite that was Office-compatible 
and free of yearly licensing fees.

    End result?  Following the staff meeting I'm in a discussion with 
the 3 top people at our agency being asked to make a presentation about 
using OpenOffice.org in our school districts.  If you want to see who we 
are and who we service here's a few links:

http://www.lhric.org
http://www.lhric.org/about/index.html
http://www.lhric.org/schools/index.html

--
Jim Anderson

"There is no such thing as perfection... only different levels of pain."

Registered Linux user #269312
http://counter.li.org

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-- 
Jim Anderson

"There is no such thing as perfection... only different levels of pain."

Registered Linux user #269312
http://counter.li.org



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