On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:04:28AM -0000, Chris Puttick wrote:
Call me silly, but howabout he gets together with a few other schools (and Ian!) to create an Star/OOo equivalent. If he adds up the costs of MS Windows, Office and Publisher plus the outrageous charge by Thomas Telford (that created by public money should remain public!), he would easily be justified in retaining a student for a year under best value.
There is also the cost of the hardware to run this software on, with the increased support requirments for *when* the kids mess up the computers. IIRC the TT course actually expects the students to go messing with MS Office internals in places. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763