[FC-discuss] Yale switching to Google Apps / Gmail

[Oliver Day]

It could also centralize legal compliance.  Either the government or
organizations like RIAA could serve papers to a single entity for
multiple schools.  It seems like the way of things to come though since
financially Google only has to offer the service for a price lower than
the cost of employing a few IT people (administrators and the like).
These days that is bound to be very tempting.

O

Michael Lissner wrote:
> I hear also that Berkeley is considering similar. Not sure if it's for
> student email or just faculty, but it's becoming a big debate. In either
> case, I think it's a terrible idea. The question is though, who do you
> trust more, Yale/Berkeley or a (somewhat) indifferent third party?
> 
> Especially when it comes to faculty, it's important that they can
> express themselves freely. Think of all the movements (free speech
> movement comes to mind) that might not have come about if there was a
> fear of communication being monitored.
> 
> If interface woes are the core of the problem, there are ways to host
> powerful email yourself without using Google's interface (which is
> undeniably great). Zimbra comes to mind, for example.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> Adi Kamdar wrote on 02/09/2010 02:48 PM:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> The Yale Daily News ran an article today about how there's
>> almost-definite talk about Yale switching to Google Apps for Education
>> and using Google servers/software to host our email.
>>
>> http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2010/02/09/google-run-yale-e-mail/
>>
>> I was wondering if you guys had any thoughts or good literature on the
>> issues with this (re privacy, data, costs, security, tech, law, etc.).
>> For the most part, the students are overjoyed about this since our old
>> email system is painful to use, so it'd be nice to address usability
>> issues as well.
>>
>> Thanks a bunch,
>>
>> -Adi
>>
>>
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