[pchelpers] Article about OpenOffice in a high school

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| 2-Year OpenOffice High School Case Study                           |
|   from the effect-of-penguins-on-young-minds dept.                 |
|   posted by Zonk on Friday May 27, @14:34 (Education)              |
|   http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/27/1721224        |
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[0]Michael writes "NewsForge (a Slashdot sister site) is carrying a
[1]2-year OpenOffice case-study on a Detroit high school who switched
from Windows NT and MS Office 97 to Linux and OpenOffice. The results?
Better than expected. In 2003, the school, who saved over $100,000 in the
process, converted 110 Windows NT machines to Linux with OpenOffice.
After several surprising developments, including OpenOffice's ability to
open old Word documents that even the new Word versions were having
troubles with, the school now uses it almost exclusively, has classes on
it's use, and encourages students to use it whenever possible. From the
article: 'While OpenOffice.org is now used by 100% of the faculty and
students in the school (though some administrative staff still uses
Microsoft Office due to specific software requirements), students are not
required to use OpenOffice.org when working at home. However, a
presentation is given to students at the start of every school year to
advise them on the use of OpenOffice.org, the availability of free
copies, and potential problems of converting from Microsoft Office
formats.'"

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http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/05/18/1944227.shtml?tid=130&tid=93




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