This is in a Catholic school – I’m one of 2
techs responsible for everything (the online
resume should be posted Wed night at
http://www.pngusa.net/~ptrule42/).
We are currently a mixed platform campus – 2
Windows labs for student use, 3 mobile
wireless iBook labs, faculty and admin have
Macs, server closet is 1 Mac server and
several Linux boxes doing DNS, web, file
serving, email, proxy, firewall, etc.
We have a very low TCO, and are quite
capable technically. Faculty are reasonably
trained, and have pretty good access when
needed.
Yes, we have problems – but who doesn’t?
The President of the school has decided – with
apparently little research or justification – to
switch the entire campus to Windows. I have
asked her point blank 3 questions (calmly, I
might add):
Why?
What problem in our technical setup has
caused you to view this major change as teh
solution?
What problem are you trying to solve?
The only answer I have been given is that “all
the other schools in the GISA use Windows.
We will spend a LOT of $ for apparently very
little benefit, and I am angry beyond words at
the lack of process.
Ignoring (PLEASE!) the “platform war Mac v.
Win” rhetoric, what should my response be?
