On 2/13/07, -ray <ray at ops.selu.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Shannon Roddy wrote: > > > You've just figured that out? I think MS owns just about every campus > > except for a few holdouts. > > Not us. :) We don't have any MS agreements and don't want any. It's been > brought to the faculty senate before and they always shoot it down. We > license each MS product individually, and our numbers show we're still > saving money.
I was in one of the first meetings when MS tried to come to SLU. The deal really didn't sound that good. First the faculty have to accept it, then the students can buy in. But they had some crazy formula for figuring out the per student cost. I was surprised, but glad it died when it did. bb
