[olug] Bluejay Usage Questionaire

[John Dickson]

Imprinting at school level is what Apple/Mac has being doing to survive. I am reminded of my nieces first days on her (Coke label and shape) bottle. If you can provide crack to a youngster they will want crack when they mature (the thought is an oxymoron, maturity is degraded). How else is the crack master to make money?
Politics=Dead Presidents, save for a Ben Franklin. Individual added financial capability influences decision. Not that someone was bought. 

My spew...sorry.

Phil Brutsche wrote ..
> Dave Thacker wrote:
> >> a) They replaced all their HP-UX dudes with Windows weenies who, 
> >> incidentally, command smaller salaries
> > 
> > Heh. but you need a lot more of them.
> 
> They already had the Windows admins.
> 
> They have Exchange and the needed software infrastructure.
> 
> They have the hardware infrastructure to support the user base.
> 
> The licenses to support the userbase is dirt cheap - remember that
> Microsoft non-profit/education volume licenses are nearly free compared
> to "regular" commercial volume liceses, especially with 6000+ users.
> 
> Remember what I said about politics - there are other reasons why the
> HP-UX machines are going away, and I suspect it has absolutely nothing
> to do with the technology.
> 
> > The Microsoft "Truth about Linux" FUD campaign is working.   In the 
> > early days of mainframes, you couldn't go wrong buying IBM.  Buying 
> > MS is like that these days.
> 
> Wrong politics.
> 
> Remember what I said about not having all the details? :)
> 
> >> For instance, I suspect they are going to start using Cisco's NAC 
> >> technology to try to keep security problems under control; this is
> >> a school, after all, with 6000+ users (students, faculty, staff) 
> >> who have poor computer use habits.
> > 
> > 
> > The revolution will start at smaller and more adventurous schools 
> > than Creighton.
> 
> Creighton was a big user of open-source software back in *1998*. Much of
> the behind-the-scenes infrastructure was run on: FreeBSD, Solaris, or
> HP-UX using: Sendmail, ISC DHCP, BIND, Apache, perl, UW-IMAP, qpopper,
> etc.
> 
> It was maintained by very gifted students (I was not one of them; this
> was 7 years ago and a good bit before I aquired my own experience) and
> their supervisors, the HP-UX admins.
> 
> So, what happened to it all?
> 
> Politics.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
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