[dundee] Open Office - Baby Steps

[Mark]

Like the title change, funny as I was thinking about making BIG steps.....

1 -  How much does it cost the University IT department per student taking into account Hardware, Software (licenses and support) and Internal staffing costs.
2 -  How much would it cost to provide each student with a Linux based laptop with some support.

If (1 > 2 response = Yippee)
Else response = pooPants

Just another tangent on the subject of documents.
All this talk about formatting being messed up reminds me of some Uni buddies who would create an outstanding looking GUI in Java and then have zero functionality as they hadn't written any working code.
If you have a working document should you really be worried about how pretty it looks until it's complete, surely the content is more important than presentation when creating......

Mark




----- Original Message ----
From: "STEVENS, GRAEME" <986100930 at abertay.ac.uk>
To: seago.john at googlemail.com; Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, 18 October, 2008 13:06:18
Subject: [dundee] Open Office - Baby Steps

If the Uni wont even consider adding open office in the forseeable, then, what about Zoho?

Its online - No Installation
You can export to OO or Office, so when both are available, its still relevant.

Keeping your work on a an Internet based office has its benefits i.e access.

That way, you introduce the concept of freedom but without the Uni technicians having to do anything.

Just a thought.

Graeme Stevens
MSc Ethical Hacking and Computer Security
University of Abertay Dundee



-----Original Message-----
From: dundee-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk on behalf of John¹
Sent: Thu 16/10/2008 21:59
To: dundee at lists.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [dundee] The Distro Swap Shop

On Thursday 16 October 2008 19:24:10 "Christie, Brian" 
<B.Christie at abertay.ac.uk>,  wrote:
> I'll see if I can find out what happened to that and what their position
> is...

vide, http://www.theopendisc.com/

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John Seago
GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 http://counter.li.org/

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