Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:15:07 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
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>

> "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> 12/21/2010 6:00 PM >>>
>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.

Hopkins is, I believe, the largest private employer in Maryland.

Looking at Wiki:
JHU - 3100 academic staff, 15,000 admin staff, 4,744 undergrads, 14,275 =
postgrads
JHU Medical Institution - 3697 academic staff, 1240 students
JHU - APL - 4500 staff

Getting out the trusty abacus .... 46,556 bodies.  And that's not counting =
other parts of the Hopkins Empire.

JHU has, I suspect, waaaay too much invested in the Windows stuff.

We already went through a near catastrophic University wide implementation =
of SAP, & I suspect no one wants to do anything that might be remotely =
similar.  George Bush was more popular, seriously.  There was a survey =
done a few months after the SAP roll out and the SAP popularity rating was =
way, way below Bush's lowest popularity rating.

Oh well .... but hey, you never know what might happen.

mjw