Open Source Alternatives

Tight budgets mean that education technology directors must make wise use of the dollars allocated to technology. I have found success investing the dollars in quality hardware and infrastructure. I like to save money by using high-quality open source alternatives to commercial software.

One example is creating PDFs. Granted Adobe Acrobat is MUCH, MUCH more than a pdf creator. In my experience most office staff and many teachers simply use Adobe Acrobat to convert documents to pdf format. There are several web-based and open source alternatives for that simple task. At a savings of $30 to $50 per workstation, that's significant.

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