[Wolves] Linux in schools

[Mark Ellse]

Andy,

> What were your reasons for changing?

When I balanced the significant costs of licences for MSOffice, the 
hassle of checking on licences, the support time needed to keep MSOffice 
up to date and the lack of MS support despite paying them loads of 
money, I felt that I was not getting value for money from MS Office.

Now we have swapped to OpenOffice I find that (after the initial 
changeover) it actually needs less support time. Upgrading, etc, is much 
less painful than with MS Office.

So far as servers are concerned, we asked in a local company to show us 
how they would install Win2k server. They couldn't get it working. In 
contrast, our Linux server just worked.

> Are Windows Terminal Services cheap in education too?

Sorry, don't know anything about them or their cost.

Mark