Training specialist Advanced Training has partnered with open source solutions company Cybersource to offer the best path forward for businesses which are looking at migrating users off Microsoft Office onto OpenOffice.org. The cost of making the move to OpenOffice.org is now affordable to all Australian business.

"OpenOffice.org now at version 2.0 is a serious contender for best-of-breed business office suite," said Cybersource CEO Con Zymaris.
"Over 50 million users have downloaded this free application already and as every month goes by, millions more adopt it. One of the biggest roadblocks to accelerating this trend is user training. So Cybersource has again partnered with Advanced Training to remove that roadblock."

The Cybersource/Advanced Training course covers all the major OpenOffice.org
applications: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base, which offer comparable functionality to their Microsoft Office counterparts:
Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access.

"We see a huge potential training market for OpenOffice.org," said Frank Hill, Advanced Training's sales manager. "To help entice even more people to this competing office suite, we're offering excellent value migration training deals. A business can now bring a dozen of its staff upto speed on OpenOffice.org 2.0 for under $2,500. Such a deal will surely establish new benchmarks in the industry for comprehensive migration course delivery."

Courses delivery schedules and further details are available from http://www.advancedtraining.com.au/content/schedule/def_schedule.jsp