This is great news. But it is, as with so many good news items coming from the Philippines, coming to me by accident. There is no formal apparatus--that is, reliable--for notifying us of significant OOo or ODF usage. When we do learn of things like this, we try to itemize them on our "Major OpenOffice.org Deployments," and I invite the schools in the Philippines to do that: it's a wiki.
I have long advocated and promoted the idea of regional groups which would, among other things, inform the rest of the OOo communities of actions like this. Why is this important? Because public and private sector organizations generally shy from taking bold actions until they learn of others' having done pretty much what they want, first. In short, they need case studies.
As well, the ecosystems developed by government deployments--schools, for instance--develop a new market that enables more companies' actions; risk, clearly, is diminished.
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