[Discuss] Openoffice in University or College

[Adam Parkin]

George Farris wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-24-11 at 22:16 -0800, David Bronaugh wrote:
>> George Farris wrote:
>>> Anyone have any resources about which Colleges or Universities might
>>> have OpenOffice.org installed in any of their computer labs.
>>>   
>> UVic does on their Linux machines.
> 
> Is there any OOo in the Windows labs?  If not I wonder why not.
> 

There is no OO in the Windows labs (at least not in ECS the last time I 
checked), and the version on the Linux machines is ancient (can't 
remember the exact version but it's a 1.x branch, not a 2.x branch). 
For the class I was teaching this term it sucked as I wanted to have a 
lab on databases, but alas we're in the Linux lab (ECS 242) and no 
OpenOffice Base available to us (and of course since it's a Linux lab, 
MS Access isn't available, not that that would've been a particularly 
attractive option either). =;->

Instructors are asked at the end of the term which software they would 
like to see installed and I'm putting OO 2.0 at the top of my list, as 
there has been a lot of times when I've wanted to print something off at 
school in the lab, and had to save it into either a MS-friendly format 
(which more than once has caused problems with formatting and such), or 
export to PDF just so I can print it in the labs.  And I know I'm not 
alone as I've had students ask me why the version in the labs is so old, 
and so hard to find.

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