Convincing a school district to migrate from OS X to Ubuntu or Edubuntu

[NoOp]

On 11/19/2008 06:26 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:

> 
> You just need to be able to replace Powerpoint and you are good to go on 
> Windows. OO handles word processing and spreadsheets well enough and is 
> compatible enough to replace Word and Excel for probably 80% of the 
> users of Word/Excel. Once a Powerpoint replacement gets up there...it's 
> rip out M$ Office time. For now, I install OO so that it can open files 
> that Word/Excel won't open. The best part being that those files were 
> created by the same Word/Excel programs that refuse to open them.
> 
> Since we moving to Ubuntu desktops...we are blowing M$ Office away. No, 
> no M$ Office under Wine.
> 

Ummm... OOo Impress will open .ppt files, and save as .ppt.