Re: [WinMac] Calendar/Contact Mgmt. Software

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:52:02 -0700

Bill Chapman wrote:
>
> On 24 Feb 99, at 12:27, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> > Our objections to that is the same as stated above...no, we're not going
> > to use a free service from some third party to keep our calendars on!
>
> I have used the free mail program Pegasus Mail for Windows and
> for Mac for several years. Just because the author wants it to be
> free is not, in itself, justification for not using it.
>

I wasn't talking about free software, such as Pegasus mail, but free
services, such as Yahoo's calendar service. The data resides on their
systems, not yours, they administer it, not you...therein lies the rub.

I know for a fact that that would be the immediate objection
raised...it's as if when we ran out of server space, we found that
YahNetaVista was offering 'Free Server Space' via the Web, so instead of
buying more disk space for our servers we told our faculty and staff to
put their files on this nifty web service....

Uhhh...backups? I don't know...
Uhhh...security? I don't know...
Uhhh...what happens if it doesn't make money? I don't know...
Uhhh...I'm fired? Uhhh... :-/

It sounds like a wonderful tool, and if we can find out and aquire the
software with which to implement our system, I'd love it, it would solve
many problems for us, campus wide. But we're not going to say:
"Implement this freebie service from a commercial source as our solution
to calendaring systems containing what may be confidential student
information."

That said I _am_ going to investigate it further...like I said, if we
can get the software to run it, at a reasonable cost, we're really in
need of something like this here at the UA. A Web based system is
exactly the kind of solution we're looking for.

Client/Server is a wonderful concept, especially when you make a web
browser the client...

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group


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