[Nottingham] Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni

[Martin]

On 24/05/12 18:37, David Aldred wrote:
> 
> On 24 May 2012 18:22, Martin wrote:
> 
>     > The University systems have to evolve for whatever new tech and new
>     > market place there is in the real world, each year. We shouldn't be
>     > languishing back in the days of IE6! If that must kept with, then IE6
>     > support should have it's own special support budget whilst the rest of
>     > the department and the rest of the world move on to better things.
> 
> The University isn't using IE6: the NHS is.    If your website
> (containing information important to a research project) doesn't work
> on the only system a research collaborator can use, you cease to get the
> opportunity to work with them.  And the NHS is a rather important
> research partner for a University with a medical school. 
> 
> And users in China are.  We get a lot of students from China, both here
> and on our China campus, and analytics tell us a high proportion of
> users in China continue to use IE6.   Telling them to bugger
> off because they don't use updated, legal, expensive copies of Windows,
> or an open source alternative, at home is not likely to be a good way of
> continuing to recruit students.  
> 
> Sorry, guys, but whilst it might be nice to roll out the world
> dictatorship and make all the nasty IE6 stuff magically go away with
> forced upgrades to the latest Chrome, it's not practical politics
> (though China could actually probably do it, but I don't think it's
> their government's priority).  

The 'dictatorship' is on the proprietary lock-in and the costs of
licenses...

Hence, the rider:

"If that must be kept with, then IE6 support should have it's own
special support budget whilst the rest of the department and the rest of
the world move on to better things."

Just a thought... Is the "mobile devices" view of websites compatible
with IE6 capabilities? ;-)

Or... Offer a University guided Linux distro rollout?



Good discussion...

Now, how to stir the University IT?...

Cheers,
Martin


ps: Thanks for fixing the quoting

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