Both these alternatives have their pros and contras. Centralized approach seems to be generally easier for control and cheaper. But its services are more distant from end users, less matched to the real needs of end users. The end users think that people from the computer center don t understand and even neglect their requirements. They also feel that they have less control of how financial resources are spent.
Decentralized approach has the opposite features.
I believe that a compromise between the two above- mentioned extreme alternatives is the suitable solution, reflecting the local conditions. The exception to any freedom is the issue of the university standard policy making. Centralized alternative is the only correct option here. Education is not just a charging of knowledge Distance learning is a big challenge to the universities nowadays. Mastery in this issue might become a crossroad between successful and non-successful universities in the near future.