there is a cost for migrating the data to Google and professional
services involved in hooking the service to your directory so groups
still work. I think the costs would quickly pay for themselves but I
haven't finished drawing up the parameters to find out. =20
Lastly, a concern I've though about but haven't asked, can I get into a
student e-mail account hosted by them. There are times when this is
necessary. I would hate to lose that ability.
Glad you asked this Patt. Please keep your responses public.
Alex
Alex Inman
Director of Technology
Whitfield School
St. Louis, MO
314.434.5141
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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Patricia Moser
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:24 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Outsourcing email for free?
Friends,
There is an interesting article in "The Chronicle of Higher Education",
Jan. 11, 2008, headlined "Colleges Get Out of E-Mail Business" (sorry
it's not a free link). It says more than 1000 colleges have signed up
with either Google Apps Education Edition or Microsoft Live@edu and
turned over their entire email operations to these companies for free.
In many cases, this was prompted by student requests who saw these
services as more convenient, more spacious (5 gigabytes of server space
per person), and did I mention FREE? Colleges that use these services
may continue to use their institutional names including the ".edu."
Online calendars and collaborative work spaces allow students to
collaborate and coordinate. =20
Have any of you considered doing or already done this?
Patt Moser, Director of Information Services and Upper School Head
Librarian
Sidwell Friends School
3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW
Washington D.C. 20016
Tel: 202-537-8164
Mobile: 202-595-4941
Fax: 202-537-8174
Email: moserp@sidwell.edu
Web: http://www.sidwell.edu/upper_school/library.asp
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