Ontario Education ministry buys Star Office

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Well, I am often surprized when I hear on a Linux list that it is good to
pay for software.

Isnt openOffice quite the same in functionality as starOffice? And even it
is not - could not students use it?

But the ministry would not feel serious if they decided that openOffice can
be used on 10,000 computers across Ontario. It would look quite silly if all
that was going to be for free, wouldnt it?

Besides, I never loved these Java-based products, taking unneccessary to
much resources (CPU and RAM). Upgrading these 10,000 computers so that they
can be used effectively with either starOffice or openoffice will cost much
more than any licences.

zb.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John McGregor" <mr.mcgregor-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 4:54 PM
Subject: [TLUG]: Re: Ontario Education ministry buys Star Office


> >
> >
> >Good info.  Unfortunately, it doesn't say how much they paid.
> >
> The Sun site states that the licencing fee is $25 a head for deployments
of 10,000 users or more, but it also states that for educational purposes
there are no licence fees and that the costs are limited to that of the
media and shipping. Either way  its substantially less than what Microsoft
or Corel would demand.
>
> John
>
>
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