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

[adelste@netscape.net (Tom Adelstein)]

ian <ian.lynch2@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>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.
>
>-- 
>ian <ian.lynch2@ntlworld.com>
>
>

Thank you very much.

I'm copying John Weathersby herewith.

He should be in touch with you.




-- 
Tom Adelstein


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