In the interest of time Betty decided to postpone the IT Vision agenda item until the next ITAC meeting. Comparative information being compiled on the schools' IT landscapes is forthcoming. There is a need across schools to quantify total IT expenditures, not just central expenditures. Currently OIT has 114 positions in the computing job family with 21 of these vacant. Windows NT is deployed as the NOS at Princeton, Stanford, and Yale.
Most schools have a three to four-year client technology renewal cycle.
Many schools are leveraging outsourcing to address their Year 2000 conversions. Duke's cost recovery approach is a surcharge apportioned by telephone distribution. Changing to a standard per port charge might create some budgeting challenges. Wiring uplift projects are high on many schools' priority lists. Duke is ahead of other schools in this area.