On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:28:08AM -0500, Dan Rue wrote: > You can start going to open source a little at a time, without hiring a > new IT staff. For instance, you can save that 50-75K by running open > office on existing windows systems. Open source software is nice enough > now to start running certain applications, without diving in head first. <devil's advocate> While that may all be true, isn't the point of school to teach kids things that they'll _use_ once they get out of school? That's why my high school (back in the day) used primarily Windows, MS Office, WordPerfect, Pagemaker, Quark Xpress, etc. Why teach them an application they an application that they'll probably never use? </devil's advocate> Nate