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Re: [school-discuss] Need reference for OpenOffice for UniversityDeployment



Cameron Miller <cdmiller@adams.edu> wrote:

>Tom Adelstein wrote:
>> I have a major US University wanting to boot out the dominate Office product and go 100% with Open Office.org
>> 
>> Can anyone give me a reference so I can get this completed? They want to know if anyone else has had success doing this. The Universty has approximately 20,000 students.
>> 
>
>Here is from SUN, including Ohio State University:
>
>http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/successstories/index.html
>
>A lot of info appeared in the OpenOffice.org newsletter this month, 
>including:
>
>Skipton Girls High School is the only specialist engineering
>    school for girls in the UK. The school is sponsored by Rolls
>    Royce and is currently updating its IT infrastructure making
>    OpenOffice.org a key application
>
>St Monica's Language College in Bury, UK are installing
>    English, German, Italian and Spanish localisations of
>    OpenOffice.org.
>
>As well as massive EDU installations in Colombia and Spain:
>
>  Colombia National University at it's four campuses in the
>    cities of Bogota, Medellin, Manizalez, and Palmira began in
>    June-2003 a program of massive use of OpenOffice.org en close
>    to 1,500 stations.
>
>  Juan Rey Saura said, "If it counts, Sun Microsystems, Inc will
>    distribute StarOffice to more than 22,000 schools in Spain."
>    [translated byRichard@openoffice.org]
>
>etc, etc.
>
>I read the latest OpenOffice.prg newsletter in this weeks Linux Weekly 
>News weekly addition: http://lwn.net
>
>Hope that is helpful,
>
>- cameron
>
>-- 
>- cameron miller
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>
>

This is perfect. Many thanks. I'm let you know what happens. They're getting audited by BSA and wish to move fast.



-- 
Tom Adelstein


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