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"The entire State University of New York (700,000) use MS Office." This is incorrect and I wish whatever source this comes from would get corrected. Both Goog
by blocke 13y ago
"The entire State University of New York (700,000) use MS Office."
This is incorrect and I wish whatever source this comes from would get corrected.
Both Google Apps and Office 365 are made available to campuses through streamlined contracts signed at the system level. It is up to each campus to pick which one they want to use.
I'm on a campus that chose the Google offering. We got rid of local storage for student files on our LAN in favor of promoting cloud storage and have outsourced all student and alumni email to Gmail. We're not the only ones in the SUNY system.
- cooldeal 13y agoReference: State University of New York moves 465,000 students over to Microsoft’s Cloud http://www.winrumors.com/state-university-of-new-york-moves-465000-students-over-to-microsofts-cloud/ http://www.winrumors.com/state-university-of-new-york-moves-...
- blocke 13y agoI'm afraid that article is not accurate at all. When reading something about SUNY if it mentions an IT decision being made system wide it's most likely inaccurate bullshit. Nearly every campus has it's own disjoint IT and outside of strong suggestions and price incentives each campus can make it's own choices. Examples: Oracle is effectively "free" for campuses so why not use that? And using something like Banner or Blackboard lets you ride on existing contracts and share dedicated resource centers. But it's not mandated and there are non-Blackboard campuses (as an example). There is no Office 365 global movement or mandate in SUNY. It's simply one of two choices IF one decides to use them. It just means each campus doesn't have to bother putting together their own contract as SUNY central took care of it already.