If you're a university, you're really going to need to offer both solutions. Why? Because your job, as a university is to educate students to what they'll be preparing themselves for in the workforce... and at this point, that's not Linux and that's not Open Office. Sad, but true. Not recognizing Microsoft is doing those students a disservice because most likely, they'll be using MS products when they get into the workforce.
What I would do if I was you would be to dual install some open source tools and then let people use what they want, and see if that softens the impact of a drastic change (people hate change, and drastic change will create knee jerk reactions). So far, the Linux community doesn't seem to understand that. There isn't one "splash" that will get all users to change, it will and has to be a gradual process for success.
If you're in the western world, you won't be able to purchase this. I also think even having it is kind of ridiculous but if they're giving it away to third world countries I guess it's their choice.
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If you're a university, you're really going to need to offer both solutions. Why? Because your job, as a university is to educate students to what they'll be preparing themselves for in the workforce... and at this point, that's not Linux and that's not Open Office. Sad, but true. Not recognizing Microsoft is doing those students a disservice because most likely, they'll be using MS products when they get into the workforce. What I would do if I was you would be to dual install some open source tools and then let people use what they want, and see if that softens the impact of a drastic change (people hate change, and drastic change will create knee jerk reactions). So far, the Linux community doesn't seem to understand that. There isn't one "splash" that will get all users to change, it will and has to be a gradual process for success.
If you're in the western world, you won't be able to purchase this. I also think even having it is kind of ridiculous but if they're giving it away to third world countries I guess it's their choice.
The information has since been updated. It's not available in the western world.