Re: [Nolug] SLU vs. The Borg

On 10 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:

> > Actually, no. The faculty/staff (about 2000) use Eudora.
> > A few lusers use Outlook, like maybe 10, but the students, for
> > the most part, use a webmail product (http://www.infinite.com/WebMail).
> > It's nothing fancy, but it gets the job done.
>
> How have you all avoided The Borg? Certainly the staff uses Windows,
> so the MS salesmen can't be happy about the NW and Linux servers.

We don't allow MS salesmen on campus. :) Most faculty/staff use Windows
98 and MS Office, so don't think MS isn't all over campus. We just keep
MS out of the server room as much as possible. We've convinced management
against using Outlook or Exchange by being virtually unaffected by every
major virus outbreak in the past 6 years. The outbreaks that shutdown
business and university servers and networks for hours or days, we didn't
even blink.

-ray

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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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