Re: Upgrades and Security Requirements...

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 06:37:06PM -0700, Eric Chamberlain wrote:
> Charles,
>
> Just to clarify, Windows95 is not supported by Microsoft and Windows98 is
> only supported if enough people complain and Microsoft caves in and releases
> a patch. For all effective purposes, Windows98 is not going to get new
> security patches.
>
> Departments may want to look at the UC's Microsoft Consolidated Campus
> Agreement (MCCA), pay a low annual fee per desktop and get access to the
> latest OS, server CAL's, latest Office, and other products. For some units
> it may be easier to budget a flat recurring cost, than trying to budget
> large sums every three or five years.

When I looked at it, the "low annual fee" was quite a bit more than
departments are currently paying for MS software. Do you have figures?

> If departments are still running machines that don't meet the minimum
> requirements for Windows2000, they should really check with excess and
> salvage. There's a fairly regular stream of machines that exceed the
> requirements and get sent to them.

Can departments get free machines from Excess+Salvage?

-- 
Tom Holub (tom_holub@LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall
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