RE: [MLUG] mlug?

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Actualy, the migration to Exchange wasn't exactly driven by staff either.... Several evaluations of the exchange platform pointed out problems and several reasons not to standardized on that platform, but they were ignored. It was touted as the most complete intergrated communication solution. Remember, very few university wide decisions are actualy made by or on behalf of actual staff. Now I saw a more reliable and extendable server solution that is exchange compatable, and I can't remember where I saw it or who sold it. I runs under windows or unix, and has Mac, Unix, and Windows clients available for it. It's not free software, but the liscensing costs a lot less than Microsoft. Even if something like that were given as an alternative, I doubt it could be accepted. Microsoft has somehow gotten it's claws into the University, and I doubt they would let it happen.
 
Shannon

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: King, Jonathan W. 
	Sent: Sun 12/8/2002 6:46 PM 
	To: EMAIL:PROTECTED 
	Cc: King, Jonathan W. 
	Subject: Re: [MLUG] mlug?
	
	


	On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, John Borchardt wrote:
	
	> hey, what the heck is going on with mlug?  the website hasn't been
	> updated for like a year, and there isn't even any
	> freesoftware.missouri.edu anymore.  does mlug even have a president?
	> does he or she do anything?  when was the last
	> meeting/presenation/expo/installfest?
	
	Dunno on all counts.  Before the school year I and a couple of other
	people volunteered to give presentations, but nobody ever got around to
	setting anything up...as far as I know.
	
	[snip]
	
	> so what?  is it okay for mlug to ostensibly do nothing while the rest of
	> the campus migrates to exchange server, outlook webmail, and winxp?
	
	I doubt that migration to Exchange is anything that MLUG could have
	influenced given that there was some fairly vocal opposition expressed at
	the time by some departments and faculty...who in practice do have at
	least a bit more influence than your average sporadic undergraduate
	organization.  I think a lot of the complete universality of MS owes a lot
	to the fact that it (and its file formats) were adopted as being official
	by the staff, which means that everybody else had to come along for the
	ride, at least if you wanted to send any electronic documents to them.
	
	Actually, in my classes I forbade electronic submission of papers and such
	for the opposite (but identical in spirit) reason: I didn't want to deal
	with a bunch of dorkily formatted Word (random version here) files.  This
	year, I do accept these from (smaller) upper division classes since I can
	easily convert them into PDF.  Not the best end result, but I can live
	with it.
	
	jking
	
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