[OPLINTECH] Open Office Software

[Shane Ian Hoffman]

For $20 - that was the price when I looked several months ago at Tech Soup.
http://www.techsoup.org/ Most Public Libraries are eligible

They have an article on the true costs of free and low cost software:
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/software/page7940.cfm

You can get it for about $60-$75 or so as all public libraries should
qualify for academic pricing from Microsoft.  If you order through CDWG or
someone, they should offer you that pricing.  If you're buying off the shelf
at Best Buy, you'll pay full retail.


-----Original Message-----
From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On
Behalf Of shivelri at oplin.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:57 AM
To: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Open Office Software

Here's a couple of things I have to ask after reading all these 
responses (thank you all for replying by the way):

First, where do I get MS Office for $15? or even for just $55?

Second, we have a tight budget and 35 computers now and will have about 
50 by this time next year, at $15 a computer thats $750 when there is an 
option for a $0 product. Is it really beneficial to buy an Office 
software when the majority of users are just e-mail, browsing, or gaming?

Finally, for those of you using OOo: Have any of your patrons said, "I 
can't use this /because/ it is OOo." or is more of a they have never 
even used a Office suite in the first place.

-- 
Richard Shively
IT/Webmaster
Greenville Public Library
520 Sycamore, Greenville Oh. 45331
937-548-3915