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- From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Computing policy
- Message-ID: <009673E7.3D457480.3258@nscvax.princeton.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:19:10 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Does your organization have a "computing policy"? What I mean by
- that is, a policy that prescribes either what hardware and software your
- organization will use, or how the decision on what to purchase and use will
- be made.
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- My department is considering adopting such a policy and we'd like
- to know what experience others have had.
-
- What we hope to accomplish:
- With N users having N+X different machines, and M different operating
- systems, word processing packages, spreadsheets, technical graphics
- packages, symbolic mathmatics packages, etc. support is much more difficult
- than it needs to be.
-
- By specifying one or a very limited number of different machines,
- we hope to make maintenance and the stocking of spares more manageable.
-
- By specifying one word processing package, one spreadsheet, etc.
- we hope to facilitate the interchange of data among users and minimize the
- costs of training and technical support.
-
- I'd appreciate any comments you would care to share with me. I do
- read this list but I'd suggest that you reply by mail since the subject is
- not really on topic.
-
- TIA
-
-
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- * *
- * Here, there be dragons! *
- * dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu *
- * *
- * Richard B. Gilbert *
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