Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

Price may be one marketing point, though this may be offset by training and
support costs. But we must keep in mind the huge amount of mind share that
MS Office has build up over the years. People are too used to Office and how
it works. In fact even if LibreOffice is better (we hope) than MS Office, we
still won't see a widespread adoption of LibreOffice or FOSS software for
that matter. I am pretty sure that big school boards like the TDSB have
contracts with Microsoft as well.

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On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:

> I am interested in the marketing of LibO as an effective tool in education.
> In particular JK (kindergarten) to the end of High School (or comparable to
> this internationally as well).
>
> Is LibO, in your opinion, a good and effective tool for educational
> purposes? If we were to "project" target the educational establishment
> (School Boards, Educational governing bodies), would LibO have any
> attractive selling points or is there any missing functionality in the suite
> that should be considered to make it a better option for its adoption by
> these organisations?
>
> We know that the obvious price advantage is one selling point.
>
> Support is perhaps one the largest consideration for these organisations.
> They normally want both support at the IT level and support at the student
> level.
>
> Marc
>
>
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