On Sat, 3 Aug 2002 21:57:54 -0500 Tim Wilson <wilson at visi.com> wrote: > Another factor is the parents. A number of years ago, our school made > the decision to move away from Macs to PCs. One of the most consistent > arguments we heard was that the PCs were what businesses used and what > the students would need to know down the road. I suspect that if our > school dumped MS Office for StarOffice, for example, we'd hear about > it from concerned parents. That said, we'll probably consider doing it > anyway when our $50k bill for Office XP licenses arrives in the mail. Our school district wanted to do something similar about 6 years or so ago. So, they hired a consulting company for $250,000 to go out and determine which OS would best prepare our students for "the real world." Between Mac and Windows, you'd think Windows would. Wrong, they determined that Mac was the better choice. Go figure. I think there were other decisions in there that made them decide this: retraining the faculty to use windows, costs of software, etc. There are Windows machines in there now, but not too many. -- Shawn sfertch at real-time.com http://www.mn-ttkd.org