The trick is the answer to this question: How many University IT department make purchasing decisions for the Engineering or Computer Science departments?
Having had this specific discussion with LSU's Computer Science department I would say very few. While the IT staff may be consulted I think you will find that this falls in the realm of "academic decisions." A realm in which logical decision making powers are often secondary to academic back scratching or political gamesmanship. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:28 AM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > I dunno. All universities have IT staffs. Say, theoretically, you're > in a deep recession and you're looking at places to cut. If It were in > charge I would look back and see how many support incidents there were > that the internal IT staff could not fix and I had to go to the OS > vendor. If there weren't any, I would switch to CentOS or Ubuntu if I > wasn't on it already. CentOS is the same thing as Redhat so I don't > see what the hassle is (though, yes, some customers do perceive a > hassle there). > > I understand customer wanting a throat to choke. But when everything > comes with a disclaimer of merchantability and fitness for a > particular purpose, do you ever really have that option? Heck, when > using Windows, do you really have a throat to choke? Slight power > imbalance there. > > -- John. > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
