thanks - yes - and because of the silly idea in my head of MS lowering price of MS office to $3 a copy. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 16, 2007 12:38 PM, Seth Woodworth <<a href="mailto:seth@isforinsects.com">seth@isforinsects.com
</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">>The big question to ask is if you have any experience with education in
<br>>China or if this is just your perception of what China wants.<br><br></div>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.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Nov 15, 2007 8:12 PM, John (J5) Palmieri <<a href="mailto:johnp@redhat.com" target="_blank">johnp@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><br>On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 20:10 -0600, <a href="mailto:tekelsey@gmail.com" target="_blank">tekelsey@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>> 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)
<br><br></div>Remember that is $3 per user<br><div><br>> , and then serve them through VNC on the xo,<br><br></div>Yes it is possible<br><div><br>> 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?
<br><br></div>Schools should be teaching the concept of word processing not a specific<br>word processor but that is as far as I will go with "throwing tomatoes".<br><div><br>> or instead of a datacenter, make the school server an app server through Wine?
<br><br></div>Why not just serve up open office?<br><div><br>> Alternatively, possible to ask sun to adapt open office for xo?<br><br></div>OO is way to big to run on the xo. AbiWord is the basis of the Write
<br>activity so it would be easy enough to run it on the xo.<br><br><br></div><font color="#888888"><br>--<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>John (J5) Palmieri <<a href="mailto:johnp@redhat.com" target="_blank">johnp@redhat.com</a>
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