I agree with you a open source solution should be used but It's just not happening where I work they are stuck with old windows nt based solutions and the company pay a lot of money for support. they could move over to a open source solution and cut their IT bills in half. I guess it's a case of schools/places of employment just doing what they always have and thats support a microsoft regime.
<br><br>~Jon<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kris Douglas</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:webbox.uk@gmail.com">webbox.uk@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Today I completed an assignment&nbsp;for IT in Linux. (We dont have any windoze machines in the house). So&nbsp;I saved it in a format supposedly compatible with Microsoft Office 2003, but...of course, microsoft&#39;s (lack of) support for open document format has redered the rather hefty assignment useless to the school. I think this is a pile of animal&#39;s fecal matter, the school should cater for the people that are actually using some software that is compatible with open formats available on the *nix platforms. 
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<div>I intend to complain at my school today to see if I can get some form of open solution for the software made available to us. But I am interested to hear your oppinions on this issue, and if its actually worth promoting.
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<div>A rather peed off,<br>Kris Douglas<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Softdel Limited Hosting Services<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Web: <a href="http://www.softdel.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.softdel.net</a>
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mail: <a href="mailto:kris@softdel.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">kris@softdel.net</a>
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