It seems like they do outsource local and yes, there is definitely a lot of MS and .net stuff in there, at least on the front end. Even the programs are moving towards using more C#, etc. World is always changing.
On the subject of the IT department, it's like most other universities. Most of the staff are part time (students) with admins being MCSE's etc. When I did research there, the professors I worked with only used *nix servers for research. On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:55 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 09:22 -0400, A.Padilla wrote: > > UNF outsources all of their IT. As far as I could tell, only research > > related projects and the compscy department had *nix machines. The > > infrastructure was mostly Windows but I didn't work there so I can't know > > for sure. > > That must have changed over the years. When had an application > development contract for UNF's Railroad Institute, part of the > continuing education back in 04-05. They had a dedicated admin and > servers at least for continuing education. The admin and servers were > located in a room on the second floor just above the conference rooms > the Florida Linus Show was held in. > > All windows servers, and even worse. At the time everything on their > network had public IP addresses and was mostly wide open, exposed, with > some common ports filtered off. That included teachers computers, and > just about all. The reasoning at the time was a teacher might install > some software and it need ports open. So they just leave it all open, > and lock things down from there or something. I really did not like that > approach at all, but had no effect on the application I was developing > for them. > > Not sure if the Railroad Institute remains, doesn't seem to be part of > continuing education offerings, unless its buried. > http://www.unf.edu/ce/ > > Likely other changes since as well, including outsourcing.... Hopefully > outsourced locally, and not to India ;) > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > Obsidian-Studios, Inc. > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > >
