The wholesale upgrade from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org carried out by Bacone College has provided a lot of publicity for OpenOffice and Open Source. (In 2003, half of the College’s computers were switched to Linux, and all of them were switched to OpenOffice.)

• Newsforge revisits the migration, and gets a response from Rob Duncan, the man responsible for the suggestion and implementation of the proposal.
• LinuxPlanet covers the story in greater detail, and also discusses the assistance received from Hentzenwerke Publishing in providing training material to ease the transition.

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