Techno-News Blog Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield |
|
|
Technology News for Higher Education Times and Dates Coordinated Universal Time
Subscribe to Techno-News Blog by Email
|
Monday, June 10, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i40/40a02901.htm Switch at Dartmouth, a leader in academic computing, points to challenges facing Apple FLORENCE OLSEN No one should mistake Richard Lucier for one of those corporate types who never loved a Mac. "I didn't want anybody to touch my Macintosh," he remembers thinking. "There was no talking to me about Windows." A little more than a year ago, Mr. Lucier became the new head librarian of Dartmouth College, which nearly 20 years ago was one of the first institutions to create a network of Apple Macintosh computers. Soon after arriving at Dartmouth, Mr. Lucier, who by then was a Windows user, asked his administrative staff members to break with tradition and agree to give up their Macs. Switching to Windows machines, he told them, would eliminate persistent problems the college has had generating reports from its administrative programs and databases. His administrators went along, without complaint....
Comments:
Post a Comment
|
