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Hi,
We've recently reviewed our position statement on Office applications, and part of this is to give schools the option of using OpenOffice in the Curriculum rather than Microsoft Office. We're now in the process of creating an msi to deploy OO via GPO. This potentially could end up in 400+ schools, so I'm keen to learn if other people have deployed OO via an msi, and if so:
Computer Weekly polls organisations on Microsoft vs Open Source products
http://epidm.edgesuite.net/RBI/computerweekly/CWRES/HTML/SurveyResults2.pdf
This highlights the uptake of OSS various sized organisations have done. MS is unsurprisingly the winner. The trialled statistics are interesting.
Implications for education?
1. MS dominates and therefore we should make sure we are using MS products to best prepare our pupils for their futures.
2. Using OSS in education is clearly more important as we remove obstacles to use OSS by providing rich and dependable experiences for our young people who will feed this into industry.
3.
OpenOffice about to reach 100 millionth download
The OpenOffice.org community anticipate the 100 millionth download around Tuesday.
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