[K12OSN] CXOFFICE cause High Load on K12LTSP 5.0

[Petre Scheie]

You could further point out that teaching materials, curriculum and the like, would cost 
a whole lot less than buying new hardware and software to support MS Office.  Workbooks, 
etc. are available at http://www.getopenoffice.org/workbooks.html.  Probably costs less 
than even CrossOver Office (sorry Jeremy).

Petre

Glenn Arnold wrote:
> Petre,
> 
> I agree with you 110%! I will use this argument with the tech
> coordinator at the school, but this Business Teacher is going to
> complain that she does not have the teaching materials for OpenOffice
> Impress and will be insisting on Microsoft Office and if I can not get
> this working on ltsp I will be insisting they buy new equipment to run
> Microsoft Office.  Because they are borrowing this lab from a vocational
> school that was house in their building.
> 
> -Glenn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Petre Scheie [mailto:petre at maltzen.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:47 AM
> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] CXOFFICE cause High Load on K12LTSP 5.0
> 
> I have nothing to offer regarding your load problem.  But I will suggest
> this regarding 
> your political situation vis a vis Powerpoint and Impress: Casually
> mention that, gee, 
> MS has a new version of Office out, with a radically different
> interface.  That means 
> that much of what the kids have been taught about using PP is now
> outdated.  Perhaps it 
> would be better if the class focused on the conceptual level of
> presentations, so that 
> kids aren't always learning stuff that's outdated by the time they
> graduate.  Most 
> people will agree with this.  Then, since it doesn't matter what version
> you're using, 
> it doesn't matter whether it's PP or OOo Impress, since you're focusing
> on the concepts.
> 
> Petre
> 
> Glenn Arnold wrote:
>> Hi everybody!,
>>
>> I have Dell Poweredge 2850 with two Dual core 2.8GHZ processors with
> 8GB
>> of Ram and Raid 5 disk setup.  I am running CXOffice pro 5.0 running
>> Office 2000.  The problem is at the school there is Microsoft
> Powerpoint
>> class that has 21 students when they start Powerpoint running top
> shows
>> CPU 5%-10% utilization, but the load shows up to 116 % fluctuates
>> 85%-90%. The server for troubleshooting purposes had only 21 students
> on
>> at the time with 4 processors I would expect it should handle this
> load
>> with no problems.  Is their anybody else running Powerpoint with 20
> some
>> students without any problems?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>> If the school would let me have my way we would just run Impress and
>> things would just work.  But, this is a political thing and their pcs
>> are too old and decrepit and I will  not support the lab running
>> Windows!
>>
>> Thanks in Advance!
>>
>> -Glenn
>>  
>>
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