StarOffice TM 6.0 In Education Gary F. Serda Global Education & Research

StarOffice In Education Agenda ● StarOffice Product Overview ● StarOffice in Education Licensing ● StarOffice Training ● StarOffice Demo

What is StarOffice? ● The full featured office productivity suite that is available to education through a no-cost license ● Compelling alternative Office Suite – Windows, Solaris TM Operating Environment, Linux – Interoperable with MS Office – OpenOffice.org developing for Mac OS X:X11

Writer: word processing, html Calc: spreadsheets Impress: presentations Draw: drawings and 3-D Base: database client Graphing, diagrams, photo editing, web publishing, art gallery, help & more StarOffice 6.0 Components

StarOffice 6.0 Benefits – Value and savings ● Powerful compelling alternative ● No-cost licensing ● Works with older hardware – Works with your world ● Multi-platform: Windows, Solaris platform, Linux ● Interoperable with Microsoft Office, XML ● Easy for beginners – powerful for others – Safe Alternative ● Open Source, published file formats ● XML, standards-based ● Provides control of upgrades

StarOffice Licensing For Education

No-Cost License For Education ● No-cost license for education institutions ● Free download for institutions and individuals or US$25 for media kit ● Allows for distribution on networks, institution systems ● Education media kit offers access to multilingual versions of StarOffice 6.0

StarOffice Distributor License ● Enables MOEs, DOEs, consortiums or districts to reproduce for members for home use by faculty and students ● Ability to host a “non-public” download site for faculty, students and staff for home use

StarOffice Path To Deployment ● Step 1: Download for Free or Purchase StarOffice Education Media Kit: – Sun Download Center (Global) load – CCV Software – Sun eSales/Sun Rep ● Step 2: Distribute and Install software

Education Support Bundle ● 3 authorized customer contacts ● Unlimited incidents ● Support during business hours ● All updates and upgrades ● Access to online SunSolve ( US$1008 per district/campus, per year($84/mo)

StarOffice Successes "The possibility to make StarOffice available for Swedish Schools is in line with the Agency's work on a soft infrastructure which focuses on the use of open standards within education.” Peter Karlberg Soft Instrastructure Program Swedish National Agency for School Improvement April 29, 2003 (Note: 2.6 million students and staff throughout Sweden)

StarOffice Successes "Through the Teacher Laptop Program, Dallas ISD will be providing laptop computers to over 11,000 teachers over the next 18 months. With no-cost StarOffice licensing from Sun, we are able pre-install a full-featured office suite that meets the needs of our teachers and provides our school district with significant cost savings." Dr. Cherie Halderman Director of Technology Dallas Indpendent School District May, 2003

StarOffice Training

StarOffice Training Options ● Free Web-based Training – End user training for Secondary & Higher Ed (English, French, German, Japanese) – StarOffice Tutorial For Kids for K12 (English & Spanish) ● StarOffice Leadership Academy (SLA) – Prepares K12 districts to conduct own training – T 3 institute for K12 Master Trainers (English) – Free curriculum for localization

Free Web-based Training ● StarOffice End User Courseware (WOB-1600) – Transitioning to StarOffice 6.0 Application Suite – Getting Started With StarOffice 6.0 Writer – Getting Started With StarOffice 6.0 Calc – Getting Started With StarOffice 6.0 Impress ● Register at – Generates institution registration code for students access

StarOffice Leadership Academy ● StarOffice Teacher Training Curriculum ● 2-3 Day Train-the-Trainer Academy – StarOffice skills – T 3 and IT Integration Strategies – Trainer's Toolkit ● Master Trainer's Guide & Slides ● Professional Development Planning

StarOffice Tutorial For Kids ● Online interactive tool for students to learn StarOffice through engaging activities ● English & Spanish

StarOffice Training "StarOffice software will benefit schools in urban and rural areas by introducing the IT culture to future generations, expanding the pool of IT talent and raising IT standards in Malaysia. However, the software alone is not enough; it has to be accompanied with training and I'm happy that Sun will be offering this to our teachers" Tan Sri Dato' Seri Musa Bin Mohamad Minister of Education Malaysia October 4, 2002

StarOffice 6.1 ● Schedule – Beta 2 available today – General availability in early fall ● Release objectives – Improved MS Office compatibility – Full featured (XML, Admin tools, SDK)

StarOffice Roadmap StarOffice Release Features ● XML as default file format ● Support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean ● Removal of desktop ● Redesigned help ● Productivity enhancements ● More extras, templates ● Improved MS Office filters StarOffice 6.XStarOffice 7.0 ● Enhanced MS Office interoperability ● Export to PDF, Flash & Web conferencing formats ● Advanced administration and configuration tools ● Enabling Assistive Technologies ● Writing tools for the Asian market ● Bi-directional writing for Hebrew, Hindi and Arabic markets ● Enterprise features ● Usability enhancements ● Redesigned charting ● More languages: Asian ● Advanced programmatic solutions and developer support

Gary F. Serda