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Problems with using or maintaining Microsoft 21st Century Skills (Office 365) in school network

We need to decide whether to use the cloud service Microsoft 21st Century Skills (with Office 365) or instead do a standard local installation of Office in a school network with 100 clients.

What are the problems with using 21st century skills (with Office 365) or with maintaining it on 100 clients which will also have many other unrelated programs installed.  This is a new system with new clients that I will be setting up before XP goes out in 2014.
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I know they are not related.  My understanding is that 21st Century skills is a cloud based service providing various cloud based programs like Office 365.

They say that any program that can be installed on a server, can be installed by them in their cloud service for a fee of $500 per program in Norway.  I need feedback on how well these programs/apps work in the cloud.  What about the bottleneck of our internet connection speed which is fiberoptic 15Mbit up and down in a school of 130 students and staff.

What is the benefit of paying for these cloud based apps if I still have to maintain windows, java, flash, antivirus and other non-server based programs etc on 100 clients.
Are we referring to the same program? http://www.p21.org/
Having Office in the cloud, and Exchange also in the cloud is handy.  Where do you see this offering of $500/program?