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I have friends who were in IT at UCL, and yes, it sounds horrifying. All the people who actually knew how to do things for users are gone, and there are hundred

by twic 4y ago

I have friends who were in IT at UCL, and yes, it sounds horrifying. All the people who actually knew how to do things for users are gone, and there are hundreds of managers who can't and won't do anything instead. I'm not sure it was a rational decision based on experiences with proprietary software. It sounds like good old grift to me.

dogcatter 4y ago
It's not that I disagree with you exactly, but as someone who teaches at a UK university (much less prestigious than Oxford or UCL)... I used to complain a lot about how much money we were sending to Microsoft and Blackboard etc, but then someone pointed to me that the main non-outsourced piece of software we use (the main student records/teaching info system) is borderline unusuable. Horribly slow, lots of 90s errors like commas in course names breaking things, doesn't work on a tablet, etc etc. At least the Microsoft stuff works.