[K12OSN] OT: any OpenOffice vs. MS Office studies/cases out there?

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"culturally unacceptable"  what the heck does that mean in English???

Bob


On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Bill Fitzgerald wrote:

> This page from the OpenOffice wiki lists major deployments internationally:
>
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments
>
> Cheers,
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> Bill
>
> Alan Hodson wrote:
> > Having just heard at the highest level in my district that Open Office is "culturally unacceptable here" (border district of 63,000 students) I am wondering if there is someone in our community of users/believers that has come across data/studies that I could use disprove the MS ethos - I know than in Texas, both PlanoISD and SanAntonioISD are huge open source supporters, but I don't know if that has translated there, or anywhere else, into a document that we can hold up as a banner.
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks
> > Alan Hodson
> > Instructional Applications Analyst
> > http://links.episd.org/
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