Excuse my ignorance, but who writes up the specifications for these
contracts? And how can one look at the RFPs (or even hear they've
been issued)?
I've been a bit baffled for years by some of the campus-wide system
choices, both in spec writing (which is a highly skilled craft, I
know!) and awards...starting when the specification on the bid for the
campus financial system was "cross-platform," and then they chose
Peoplesoft based on a "some-day" promise from them, over Oracle which
already had a cross-platform solution. Which gives us our current
still-Windows based financial system 8 years later--tho' now owned by
Oracle. And I think I recall at the time Peoplesoft was so
overwhelmed by development projects because they had bid low on too
many projects, the lack of appropriate staffing at Peoplesoft ended up
delaying launch of UC's BFS by a year or more.
Another question (from ignorance): how well do these ASP-based systems
scale? My impression is that they don't scale up for heavy traffic
that well and require more server power (but I don't understand these
things very well).
- Marilyn
On Jan 6, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Rusty Wright wrote:
> If the majority of their customers have been universities then
> clearly this would be perplexing. But I'd guess that they've
> primarily serviced for-profit, commercial companies, where Windows
> is by far the norm, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if CONEXIS is
> using all Windows based stuff for developing their web. For
> example, the main page is, you guessed it: default.asp.
>
>
> Scot Hacker wrote:
>>
>> It's not like something gets "overlooked" when this happens. Web
>> developers don't have to do anything special to make sites Mac
>> compatible. It's not like "Oops, we forgot to make our site Mac
>> compatible." It's the other way around - a deliberate decision on the
>> part of web developers and their bosses to use non-standard, Windows-
>> only technologies on the open web. It's never been a good idea, but
>> is
>> also a pretty archaic practice at this point.
>>
>> It's appalling to hear of this kind of thing still happening in 2009.
>>
>> ./s
>>
>>
>> On Jan 6, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Mimi Mugler wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Greg:
>>> Thanks for forwarding that to the list. While I sympathize with the
>>> problems of getting a new system up and running, I just can't agree
>>> that having a major system for campus employees like this
>>> unavailable
>>> to Mac users is a "kink". I don't know how that could not be noticed
>>> in the specification process.
>>>
>>> Mimi
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