The higher demand is visible around the campus, said biology Prof. Lewis Kleinsmith. Faculty members' concerns include the maintainence of programs after upgrades occur and being able to communicate efficiently with both students and other faculty. When the University began purchasing more computers that use Windows NT, users had problems operating the new software. ITD had to upgrade many of its own computers and departmental computers to resolve the problem. Faculty also are concerned about being able to send documents and e-mail between departments without translation hassles.
Problems occur when documents created on different formats are exchanged.
A solution to the department's transferring difficulties would be to centralize the different units. By creating one central system for ITD, Computer Aided Engineering Network, Medical Center Information Technology, and the other smaller servers, there would be no transfer problems.