<div class="gmail_quote">I don't see the problem with an organisation like that saying "We know Windows, but we'll make best efforts on absolutely anyone who goes for Bring Your Own Device. No promises, but at least our nerds can Google for you".</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Maybe not those precise words. But you see the intention. They don't need to employ experts of every discipline, they just need someone with a bit of techno knowhow who is more likely to know the correct search engine incantation to get him/herself a possible answer. It really doesn't need to be costly or regimented.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 May 2012 16:48, Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk" target="_blank">martin@ml1.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 24/05/12 16:39, David Aldred wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> Though some of that assumption is having to start to break down as<br>
> students increasingly want to use iOS, Android and BBOS devices to talk<br>
> to University systems. The problem for any institution is deciding<br>
> what 'support' means - paying for expertise to support Windows, MAcs,<br>
> all flavours of Linux, BBOS, Android etc etc gets rather costly.<br>
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</div>Hopefully your costs *reduce* due to fewer niggles and problems, and<br>
less of the expensive lock-in, with the Linux and *nix systems ;-)<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Martin<br>
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