University Chancellors and even heads of computing schools in universities are often very far removed from the industry and follow a mix of 30 year old technology that huge dinosaur corporations expect everybody to know but are obselete (like x.500, kermit, etc) or obselete-before-it-hits-the-shelves vapourware from microsoft.
Ummm, kermit is still actively maintained. It's certainly not obsolete
<http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/>
I mean in college I used UNIX and SQL, but in the first year at university we used rubbish like Access (later we obviously used Oracle and decent databases).
Oracle? Decent Database? That's a whole other thread. ;-)
-Dom
