Learning Pathways had a good stand at BETT. They were pitching StarOffice6 very well, explaining their distribution efforts, and the price. I told the guy I thought it was going to be free. He told me I was wrong, and I humoured his dillusions. He turns out to be correct it would seem. Bugger. I pitch this stuff quite regularly to management in schools. I come up against the 'if it's free it can't be good' syndrome quite a lot. You can see it on their faces as you finish the sentence. Society constantly bombards us with, 'you get what you pay for', or 'you don't get anything for nothing in this world my lad'. I think the 'site licence' cost for a school could lead to some real interest. I reckon it could be easier to convince heads that the software is 'worth' something if they feel they're getting a good deal - i.e. the �50 is so cheap because it's at an educational rate. In some bizarre twisted way the 'it's free for everyone who wants it' automatically raises issues over quality/desirability. Personally, I'm more interested in OpenOffice.org because it's truely free. That's the one I'm sticking to. For schools? I reckon StarOffice 6 is going to be a blinder! -- Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com