[ubuntu-in] Ms-Office mandatory for Engineering colleges ?

[Sreekandh B]

Ram,
What they are looking is Office 365 which is a collaboration suit available
on cloud and not Microsoft office locally installed. The mandate is wrong,
you can't install office 365, you can just sign up and start using it in
cloud. AICTE can't even write grammar free mandate forget about they
suggesting alternate tools.

>From the clipping

A recent notification by the AICTE states that all institutes must
compulsorily install and use Microsoft Office 365, a productivity suite,
which has little to do with the functioning of the cloud-storage service.

There is no free, open-source cloud-based offering, and Microsoft’s
product, priced at zero initial cost, fulfills that need. Dr. S.S. Mantha,
Chairman, AICTE, announced, “Office 365 will enhance our day to day
communication, collaboration, and monitoring of the colleges we oversee...
This will help us promote and propagate innovation across all 11,500
institutions."




On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, Ramnarayan.K wrote:

>
> Did not know ms office was a cloud solution. So its strange that you query
> is posited as such.
>
> Aicte's move reeks of the tacit industry wide support for profiteering as
> the first line of enterprise .
>
> ram
> ***
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> On Apr 22, 2013 10:18 PM, "Sreekandh B" <gnuyoga at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'gnuyoga at gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
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>> On Monday, April 22, 2013, James Sebastian wrote:
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>>> How a government body can mandate a commercial application when open
>>> source alteratives like Libre Office or other on the cloud competing
>>> solutions are there ?
>>>
>>
>> Like what other cloud solutions are available for colleges ? Which is
>> free ? Which colleges can start using it ?
>>
>> Am not a m$ supporter either, but curious to know options.
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