If the administrative depts of the school are running the enterprise apps on Microsoft, the integration, training, and support costs of changing over will eat most of that $2.5 mil. A *somewhat* analagous situation is the Cal State system's moved to CMS, an enterprise management platform from PeopleSoft. High costs, integration challeneges, lots of resistance, etc.
Switching an entire CS department = good idea. Switching an entire university = don't bother.
The MSDN portion of Microsoft's site has boatloads of references, examples, etc. I've rarely had a problem finding what I need reference-wise there. Like here or here.
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If the administrative depts of the school are running the enterprise apps on Microsoft, the integration, training, and support costs of changing over will eat most of that $2.5 mil. A *somewhat* analagous situation is the Cal State system's moved to CMS, an enterprise management platform from PeopleSoft. High costs, integration challeneges, lots of resistance, etc.
Switching an entire CS department = good idea.
Switching an entire university = don't bother.
The MSDN portion of Microsoft's site has boatloads of references, examples, etc. I've rarely had a problem finding what I need reference-wise there. Like here or here.
Or was the question rhetorical? Bah.
Ever heard of Noam Chomsky? Might want to take a listen to what he has to say...