Next, Dr. Priscilla Hancock outlined her developing plans for administrative and academic computing and discussed recommendations in the ITC mid-year report.
Quick action is required to prevent data loss.
Our present mainframe lacks capacity to run existing applications at peak times and the new versions of administrative software will require significant more disk and processing capacity. Hancock indicated that a new mainframe is not necessarily the most desirable solution, but because we have delayed so long, it is the only solution that is doable in the time we have. She pledged to keep the new machine cost as minimal as possible to get the job done adequately and hopes that we will realize significant maintenance savings, though they will not likely cover all of the costs. Cost estimates may be available by the March 20 meeting. Our migration needs to be complete by January, 1999.