[Discuss] Openoffice in University or College

[stephen hawkes]

Adam Parkin wrote:
> 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.
>
I just checked via ssh. The version is 1.1.2 :P. I use OO 2, so I always 
have to remember to save as a different format since I can't open it on 
any of the computers.