To all, more good news for WINTEL
A nice little piece here detailing how Ivy League Schools are moving to WINTEL and suggesting their
students do the same. Since it is a short piece I just pasted the whole thing here.
FEWER APPLES IN THE IVY LEAGUE
businessweek.com
BRING MONEY AND CLEAN sheets--but not Apple Macintoshes. That's the advice Yale University is
giving its 1,310 incoming freshmen.
In an open letter from Information Technology Services head Daniel Updegrove, students buying new
computers are ''strongly encouraged to select a Windows PC.'' The reason: Software for such administrative
activities as cataloging school libraries and class scheduling is being increasingly designed for Windows.
Ultimately, the missive warns, Yale ''cannot guarantee support for Macintoshes beyond June, 2000.''
And Yale isn't alone. Dartmouth, exclusively Macintosh since 1983, is hiring its first Windows specialist to
assist students. The University of Pennsylvania, like Yale, has been buying software designed for
Windows--a trend that bodes ill for Macs. At Brown, administrators now estimate that half its students use
Windows PCs, compared with 25% five years ago; at Princeton, it's 65%. And Columbia plans to reevaluate
its advice to students about computers in the wake of Windows NT. ''Apple isn't down and out in
education,'' says Michael Gartenberg, Gartner Group research director, ''but it's going to have to fight.'' |
