I just read this item on  /.   :

"The New Zealand Ministry of Education has declined to renew a licensing deal for MS Office on 25,000 Macintosh computers in the country's schools. The Education Minister has suggested that schools use the free alternative NeoOffice."
 
Read on and dig into a few links and you find that the reason for this action is a "row" over school funding. The MS Licenses cost $NZ 100Million and the Ministry of Ed is trying to save money.

More interesting is the fact that many people are quite upset over the change because they are worried about the "bugs and problems" in NeoOffice.  Still a lot of work to be done to educate people on open source software - how it works, how to get help, support, etc.  Personally I think that NeoO is pretty good, I seldom have any trouble and goodness knows that  my friends with MS O certainly encounter bugs!

Someone might also want to let these guys know that OpenOffice is porting to Mac (with the help of Sun) and possibly will be available later this year - and one can imagine that paid support contracts and support should be available soon after that.