I know that Sun does offer free (volunteer) support and user education to 
schools who implemant SunRay appliances. I do believe this to be limited to 
those schools that are in the same city as a Sun office. Even Solaris on 
Sunrays would be better than what the state is planning. 

On Thursday 30 August 2001 02:16 pm, you wrote:
> I think an important source of support in this would be the folks at
> Sun/Star.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Brian
> > Cluff
> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:44 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: AZ students,MS office. Help me!
> >
> >
> > I think the letter really needs a list of govt agencies and other large
> > entities that are currently using StarOffice with great success.
> > Otherwise
> > these politican type with just say... what the hell is
> > staroffice... it must
> > be crap
> >
> > Probably also need to stress a little more that it's prefectly
> > legal to give
> > every kid in the school a copy of it to use at home, since that
> > seems to be
> > a large part of the problem, and that it's also multiplatform so they
> > wont have a bunch of computers unable to run it either.
> >
> > Brian Cluff
>
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