Can't say that there would be no cost in the 5-10 year timeframe. This comes back to the personnel issues. Part of the problem is estimating on what will happen in academic computing. There has not been an attempt to place the mainframe sharing issues in strategic campus plan. We are jumping at small pieces without looking at the whole picture.
Concern is sensitivity to all user needs.
Need to look at both administrative and academic needs. Trying to avoid everything being driven by administrative needs only. We are trying to justify our needs and administrative needs. Our responsibility is academic needs. Changes should be driven by the academic needs.