Msoffice on xo

[Todd Kelsey]

thanks - yes - and because of the silly idea in my head of MS lowering price
of MS office to $3 a copy.

On Nov 16, 2007 12:38 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at isforinsects.com> wrote:

> >The big question to ask is if you have any experience with education in
> >China or if this is just your perception of what China wants.
>
> I'm pretty sure that Todd means to use China because it would be
> innexpensive to host there, not because it is particularly something that
> China needs.
>
> On Nov 15, 2007 8:12 PM, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 20:10 -0600, tekelsey at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to set up an inexpensive data center in china,
> > put an application server together, and serve windows xp and ms office (at
> > the $3 educational pricing)
> >
> > Remember that is $3 per user
> >
> > > , and then serve them through VNC on the xo,
> >
> > Yes it is possible
> >
> > > treating it as a thin client, to address those in some countries who
> > may feel it is important to have children learn ms office and windows for
> > employment purposes?
> >
> > Schools should be teaching the concept of word processing not a specific
> > word processor but that is as far as I will go with "throwing tomatoes".
> >
> > >  or instead of a datacenter, make the school server an app server
> > through Wine?
> >
> > Why not just serve up open office?
> >
> > > Alternatively, possible to ask sun to adapt open office for xo?
> >
> > OO is way to big to run on the xo.  AbiWord is the basis of the Write
> > activity so it would be easy enough to run it on the xo.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>
> >
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