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Authored by: JWellner on Mar 26, '02 05:29:36PM

They actually felt like working with businesses. We asked to be part of the project and was denied. The funny thing is that alot of the goals that the Higher Ed. users and the Enterprise level users have are exactly the same. For example, having userproof desktop security, supporting multiple applications across multiple user accounts and supporting a large volume of machines over a large area.

We have roughly 105 Macs that are going to be upgraded to OS X in the next year. I've talked to a few people at a larger company than us and they are making the leap with 16,000 Macs. It would be nice to see either the Higher Ed. folks loosen a bit and cooperate with businesses in coming up with Enterprise grade solutions or to have the large businesses/corporations/etc. get together and start sharing information.

As it stands today Apple isn't willing to do so (without pulling teeth) and I do believe continues to push larger companies where Macs either have a tenatious hold or a large grip on the user population off to the side.



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RE: Would be great if...
Authored by: Anonymous on Mar 26, '02 06:06:11PM

Don't feel too bad.
We're HIED and were denied involvement with this consortium. We're just left on the sidelines like many other Education sites who have to be spectators to their work, rather than helping with it.



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RE: Would be great if...
Authored by: sdoenges on Mar 28, '02 08:06:36PM

Actually there is a public forum on macosxlabs.org where anyone not directly participating can indirectly help and participate by submitting issues, concerns, questions, etc. To join this discussion forum, see:

http://webcrossing.macosxlabs.org/

And you can directly send feedback to the group through the Contact Us page on the site:

http://www.macosxlabs.org/contact/contact.html

So you do have some options...



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RE: Would be great if...
Authored by: LeftOfCenter on Mar 26, '02 10:16:09PM

Quite frankly, I support their decision to not allow enterprise users to participate. My university whored itself to too many corporations, and what did the students gain? ZILCH! Many resources including everything from computer labs, to printing presses, to even entire buildings (anyone know of CIMS?) were closed completely to students and reserved for corporate meetings, training, or research. Sure, the school turned a profit, great! Yet, my tuition rate still went up each year. The corporate world has the resources to accomplish this task on its own, let these higher-ed users pool their scare resources, share their knowledge, and maintain their integrity.



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Would be great if...
Authored by: hmclean on Apr 01, '02 05:54:10PM

The goals of all labs are quite similar -- higher ed, K-12, private industry. We've established a public forum where anyone can ask questions or share information about deploying Mac OS X in labs. Please join us:

http://webcrossing.macosxlabs.org/



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