Colleges Outsourcing Email To MS Live, Google

Andy Guess tips us to his article at Inside Higher Ed offering a detailed look at the snowballing trend of colleges outsourcing their email infrastructure, mostly to Google and Microsoft Live. Even outsourcing just email would presage big changes in the work that IT departments do on campus; but more such changes are on the horizon as schools grapple with entering freshmens' already entrenched online habits.

Outsourcing it?

[Anonymous Coward]

If I was a university president, my motto would be "Get a gmail account, bitches", then I'd be all like, "Regeants: Up my pay another $150K", then under my breath I'd be like, "bitches."

Re:Takes a load off IT.

[FranTaylor]

Higher Ed. Has below average skills in handling their own IT Infrastructure.

Speak for yourself, buddy.

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Re:Outsourcing it?

[Anonymous Coward]

... and then the Regents would be all like "What's up with that crazy ass prez talking to that beaker full of chemicals" and your beaker full of chemicals would say something like "Did you just call me a wuss?"

Re:Takes a load off IT.

[adminstring]

At that point we'll probably just start accepting more students from other countries [nytimes.com] to keep the classrooms full.

Hey

[kybred]

Yeah, let's pay to SELL OUT our students! What a brilliant idea. If some BANK came to your school, and said hey we'll help out a bit with your accounting department functions if you will just make sure all your students use our BANK, you'd look at them like they were insane. However when it comes to selling out students to be captive CONSUMERS of a big evil email vendor, people see few problems. Can't you see the business of MS and Google is NOT EMAIL?

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That and...

[ueltradiscount]

In Soviet Russia your college email emails YOU! =)