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

[ian <ian.lynch2@ntlworld.com>]

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:11, Tom Adelstein wrote:
> 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
> >- UNIX Systems Administrator
> >- Outhouse Attendant
> >- http://portal.adams.edu/outhouse/
> >- http://staff.adams.edu/~cdmiller/
> >
> >
> 
> This is perfect. Many thanks. I'm let you know what happens. They're
> getting audited by BSA and wish to move fast.

I'm the OpenOffice.org marketing lead for rducation so if I can help let
me know. We have a number of education sites in the UK using OO.o on
Linux (East Hull CLC has 120 station Linux thin client network running
OO.O and StarOffice from 6 servers) Also I was responsible for the
Skipton and St Monica's quotes above. Mainly these are schools catering
in the 11-18 age range rater than Universities. I can site several
schools that have built OO.o projects into their curriculum planing here
in the UK.

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ian <ian.lynch2@ntlworld.com>