[PLUG] Article in Linux Today about M$ kill UNIX at Universities..

[A Braunsdorf]

In message <19990921121527.A690@cs.purdue.edu>, "Dennis W. Brylow" writes:
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>    One of the main reasons CS180 switched to its current configuration was
> to disentangle ourselves from the ENAD labs and what PUCC had become.

When was that, exactly?  I lost touch of what PUCC was doing after
I left (start of 1995, I think).  My networks since then (Physics
and now EAS) don't use PUCC much at all.  That and I only know a
few people still over at PUCC and only really talk to a couple of
them. :-(

The PUCC reorganization that split it into four "divisions" (boy,
that's an appropriate word) and dissolved the UNIX Group took place
in what? 1994?  1993?  I stuck around longer than I should have.

The ENAD Sun lab was the testing ground for a lot of PUCC sysadmin
stuff.  It was an interesting problem- how do you administer that
many machines (seventy-something?) from a central location, hopefully
with a small staff.  The setup worked pretty well until they
dissolved the UNIX Group and people started running for the door.

We're still using a lot of that technology at Physics and EAS.  I
couldn't manage my machines without it.  PUCC's using it less and
less.

PUCC's still got a bunch of good people, but it's the death of the
culture that's the real problem, and that's why I brought it up in
this thread.  The idea that Microsoft is targetting the culture is
probably dead on, and it'll be disastrous.

ab