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Summary
Early draft
This page lists the benefits for Educational establishments
- Skills taught should be as ‘generic’ as possible and not tied to one vendor’s product
- File and 'look and feel' compatibility with MS-Office
- Being able to give away software is a good ‘selling point’ for courses
- Excellent value for money
- Powerful enough to cope with long academic documents, dissertations, etc
- Build co-operative skills across the internet - OpenOffice.org is an international community with multiple opportunities for participation
- No worries about license compliance / need to audit PCs
- Good product to teach/learn: learn once, use anywhere
- Likely to be available in local languages (could be translated as a community effort)
- Network installation available for ease of administration