Open Source in Government and Schools

[Jan. 15, 2004]

Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up on some wins. First, you'll 
notice an article below about Newport News Virgina and secondly, I 
wanted to let you know that the University of Southern Mississippi has 
entered into  a promotional use agreement with Sun for the broad use of 
OpenOffice 7. 

The Newport News story discusses the cities efforts to build an Open 
Source alliance with governments in the US and elsewhere.

http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2004/01/15/andy_stein_interview.html

The academic promotion with Sun for StarOffice 7 allows schools to get 
the entire suite for free and offer it to all students, faculty and 
administration as well as parents, relatives, etc.

If you use OpenOffice you may want to switch to SO7 as it provides 
higher quality desktop rendering and many addons.

We'll also have some announcements coming out at LinuxWorld about many 
more wins in the open source arena at schools, in government and 
especially in big US government.