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Freitag Mai 27, 2005

"Detroit high school opens its desktops"
"The functional requirements for an office suite were straightforward: The suite had to include full-featured word processing, spreadsheets with graphs and charts, and presentations. The suite needed to include all of the functions and capabilities being taught in technology classes, be an effective tool for use in school work assignments, and be able to open documents in Microsoft formats for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Ironically, it turned out that OpenOffice.org met the last requirement about as well as Microsoft Office, because the software that students used at home included many older versions of Microsoft Office as well as Microsoft Works, and even Microsoft Office 2000 experienced compatibility issues with other Microsoft office applications.

There was an additional benefit to OpenOffice.org -- because it is free open source software, the school was able to offer the software to all faculty and students. Ultimately, the school provided 30 "library copies" on CD-ROM for students to check out, take home, and install on their own systems."

The full article can be found here.
( Mai 27 2005, 11:52:14 PM CEST ) Permalink

"Indian government gives away productivity software"
"Over 50,000 CDs have been distributed so far, according to Raman, and C-DAC aims to distribute 3.5 million of them. The software can also be downloaded from a Web site maintained by C-DAC, at http://www.ildc.in."
The full article can be found here.
( Mai 27 2005, 10:51:42 AM CEST ) Permalink