On page 7 of the BECTA full report at http://www.becta.org.uk/corporate/press_out.cfm?id=4681
there is a table with 15 schools comparing their use of StarOffice and OpenOffice.org. Its probably not statistically representative but it provides some insight into the comparative take up on which we have had very little data. Interesting that Star Office is more prevalent in primary and OOo in secondary. That might be related to the fact that secondary schools generally have more technical knowledge onsite. There are a lot of useful quotes "One of the examples one of the children gave me was importing a picture or a photograph from the Internet. She used StarOffice because she said it was easier than doing it through other packages" "The overall satisfaction was higher among OSS schools overall, especially in the primary school sector." "If I moved anywhere else I'd implement OSS because the financial savings are considerable and this releases more resources to tackle successful implementation" "This is difficult because of the views of teachers on it - they seem to prefer Microsoft Word but only because they are more familiar with it." -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
