Colleagues,
The University of Exeter is considering its future strategy for
administrative computing. Complications arise due to the urgent need to
replace some of the existing hardware and to provide a software system for a
major administrative area now (not student records).
Our IT Services have advised the following strategy which they believe will
not significantly restrict our future choice of a Student Records system but
will allow the above two points to be addressed:
(a) only Unix-based systems should be considered;
(b) only systems which use the Oracle database should be considered;
(c) only hardware from Hewlett Packard or Sun Microsystems (or possibly DEC)
should be considered.
Please can anyone advise me as to whether, if we were to go down the above
route, we would be excluding consideration of any highly regarded Student
Records systems.
Deborah
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Deborah Welland
Senior Assistant Registrar telephone: 01392 263027
University of Exeter
Northcote House fax: 01392 263018
Queens Drive
Exeter
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