Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:00:38 -0500
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: gah! let's try that again - Re: google word list
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 12/21/2010 1:22 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
>> Barry Newton<bnewton at ashcomp.com>  12/21/2010 12:39 PM>>>
>> On 12/21/2010 9:32 AM, Michael Walsh wrote:
>>>
>>> 3. As for GroupWise, in the near future JHU Press will be replacing it =
> =
>>> with Outlook.
>>>
>>> mjw
>>
>> [Frying Pan]-------->{Fire}
>
> I gather it's financial.  We're about the only JHU entity with GroupWise =
> and the cost of support is escalating.
>
> And since most the JHU Empire is Windows .... there you go.

If cost is a factor, they should look at Thunderbird and Sendmail (or
one of the other free e-mail servers that are available).  Free beats
anything Microsoft is likely to be offering.  If you need webmail
access, there are free solutions available for that as well.

They could save even more by going to OpenOffice on Linux rather than
what they are probably using now for that (MS Office and Windows).

There are free versions of most of the stuff that most people need to
get their work done.  Not all of it, but most of it.  If you are
sticking with MS software because that's all your IT staff is familiar
with, then get better IT staff that is more widely experienced.

-- Mike B.