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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 licence 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