Re: ECU to dump Macs?

2004-03-04 Thread Thomas James
The majority of macs used at ecu are used within the school of communications and mulitmedia, which revolves around a mac os environment. Too my knowledge the majority of computers used at ecu outside of scam are windows based pcs. I don't think the IBM contract will have any effect on scam's syst

Re: ECU to dump Macs?

2004-03-04 Thread Mark Secker
As a guess I'd say this would be for Admin (HRM, student services etc)and those academic school supported by the central IT division. If so this would be simply a situation of IBM pretty much picking up were Comtech left off and before that Digital. In the past individual schools have been abl

Re: ECU to dump Macs?

2004-03-04 Thread Stephen Atherton
Hi, I've been waiting for an ECU person to reply to this tread, but I'll jump in instead having just iChatted with a few folks there. No, this is all about IBM taking care of the Windows Standard Operating Environment (SOE). ECU still big Mac users with no plans to dump them. Cheers, Step

Re: ECU to dump Macs?

2004-03-04 Thread Shay Telfer
Hi all, I just read in a publication from Edith Cowan Uni that they have formed an alliance with IBM, and that Big Blue won the contract to supply ECU with computers. ECU were big users of Macs (remember that really big order a few years ago) and I wondered if they were deserting Apple altogether?

Re: ECU to dump Macs?

2004-03-04 Thread Matthew Healey
On 03/03/2004, at 11:45 PM, P.Bull wrote: Hi all, I just read in a publication from Edith Cowan Uni that they have formed an alliance with IBM, and that Big Blue won the contract to supply ECU with computers. ECU were big users of Macs (remember that really big order a few years ago) and I w

ECU to dump Macs?

2004-03-03 Thread P.Bull
Hi all, I just read in a publication from Edith Cowan Uni that they have formed an alliance with IBM, and that Big Blue won the contract to supply ECU with computers. ECU were big users of Macs (remember that really big order a few years ago) and I wondered if they were deserting Apple altogether?