As a graduate of DePauw's computer science department, I would respectfully disagree. I will admit DePauw is not a perfect school, but no place ever is. DePauw prepared me well for "Real Life" and I've been happily employed in my field since graduation (where I've done work in both Java and.NET with no problems). DePauw's philosophy is to teach thinking skills, not to be a Computer Science trade school, so in the end, whether you agree or not, you probably got a better education than you realize (If you were paying attention). I can't speak for the last couple of years personally and forcing people to buy Dell laptops does concern me. However, all things considered, I think that DePauw's efforts/attempts to be more connected are admirable, and are certainly much better than a school deciding not to do anything because they're not 100% sure what the most effective long term course of action is. I will admit that certain things I saw were done for marketing purposes, but in the end, I gained benefit from even those things. Part of my decision to attend DePauw was because of their installation of ethernet to every dorm room in 1996 (when it WAS uncommon for dorms to be wired to the internet). After hearing about all the schools that have "incorrect" information on this survey, maybe DePauw wouldn't be #3. But it's not DePauw's fault that the other schools didn't take the survey seriously.
In the ERP market, 10 years is a blink of an eye. Many companies take more than a year just to get the software installed and working. I would not be very comfortable if I was a peoplesoft customer and oracle did support my software properly for only ten years. I would still be forced to upgrade to oracle or change vendors unless I planned to go out of business within that timeframe.
You forget that OSX is based on BSD, and has a large segment of its developers working on projects that wil directly benefit the open source community. You can't say that for Microsoft.
I'll just pack up my things an move to the savage reservation now. This technology should be very scary to anyone who has read Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" If you have not read the book, and think this advancement is a good idea, then check the book out.
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As a graduate of DePauw's computer science department, I would respectfully disagree. I will admit DePauw is not a perfect school, but no place ever is. DePauw prepared me well for "Real Life" and I've been happily employed in my field since graduation (where I've done work in both Java and .NET with no problems). DePauw's philosophy is to teach thinking skills, not to be a Computer Science trade school, so in the end, whether you agree or not, you probably got a better education than you realize (If you were paying attention). I can't speak for the last couple of years personally and forcing people to buy Dell laptops does concern me. However, all things considered, I think that DePauw's efforts/attempts to be more connected are admirable, and are certainly much better than a school deciding not to do anything because they're not 100% sure what the most effective long term course of action is. I will admit that certain things I saw were done for marketing purposes, but in the end, I gained benefit from even those things. Part of my decision to attend DePauw was because of their installation of ethernet to every dorm room in 1996 (when it WAS uncommon for dorms to be wired to the internet). After hearing about all the schools that have "incorrect" information on this survey, maybe DePauw wouldn't be #3. But it's not DePauw's fault that the other schools didn't take the survey seriously.
In the ERP market, 10 years is a blink of an eye. Many companies take more than a year just to get the software installed and working. I would not be very comfortable if I was a peoplesoft customer and oracle did support my software properly for only ten years. I would still be forced to upgrade to oracle or change vendors unless I planned to go out of business within that timeframe.
You forget that OSX is based on BSD, and has a large segment of its developers working on projects that wil directly benefit the open source community. You can't say that for Microsoft.
I'll just pack up my things an move to the savage reservation now. This technology should be very scary to anyone who has read Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" If you have not read the book, and think this advancement is a good idea, then check the book out.