[Nottingham] Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni

[david at gbenet.com]

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On 24/05/12 16:39, David Aldred wrote:
> On 24 May 2012 16:14, david at gbenet.com <david at gbenet.com> wrote:
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>> I am quite surprised that there is no Linux support. That all your IT
>> staff are Microsoft
>> Engineers - how on earth did they get their degrees? As you point out the
>> majority of
>> science departments need Linux - space research to archaeology - what
>> happens when these
>> departments have a "problem?" I suspect that all their staff have an IT
>> Degree and not one
>> given to them by Microsoft!
> 
> 
> There is, of course, a significant amount of *Unix* use at the University,
> and a lot of web-delivered applications are PHP based and run on *Unix*
> servers.  What there isn't is support for the widespread use of *Linux* as
> a primary desktop system, although last time I looked the IS website did
> list CentOS as formally supported.    Many of the core systems (email etc)
> are Windows based, so the assumption is that to use the core services you
> tend to use Windows (in a virtual environment or otherwise).
> 
> Though some of that assumption is having to start to break down as students
> increasingly want to use iOS, Android and BBOS devices to talk to
> University systems.   The problem for any institution is deciding what
> 'support' means -  paying for expertise to support Windows, MAcs, all
> flavours of Linux, BBOS, Android etc etc gets rather costly.
> 
> David
> 
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A question: How much money  does the uni pay in Microsoft fees per annum?

David


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