Re: Gmail for students and IMAP

[Greg Francis <francis () GONZAGA EDU>]

Actually, I believe that organizations do choose the wrong solution
depending on who made the decision and how different constituencies
within the organization have evaluated it. In our case, we have
advocates for keeping our student e-mail internal, advocates for
Microsoft's solution, and advocates for Google's solution. There will
be people that believe we made the wrong decision since they put
difference weights on different criteria.

FWIW

Greg Francis
Director, Central Computing and Network Support Services
509-313-6896
francis () gonzaga edu


On Jul 29, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:42:47 EDT, "James M. Dutcher - Assoc. VP IS/
> IT & CIO" said:
>
> > SUNY Orange has right-sourced
>
> *bingo*.
>
> Oh, sorry. We *weren't* playing buzzword bingo?
>
> <rant>
> You outsourced it. Period.  "right-sourced" has *zero* semantic
> meaning, since
> it apparently means "choosing the best in/out/open/closed source".
> But
> think about it for a moment - does *anybody* ever intentionally
> choose the
> *wrong* one, based on the criteria on the table at the time?
> </rant>
>
> Sorry, but it needed saying. Carry on... ;)