With the schools and Library, develop a set of principles for academic computing that articulate organizational roles and models of collaboration. Extend relationships with key hardware and software vendors. Provide systems administration for UNIX workstations, for a fee, from initial startup to training to continuing operations. For a fee, help customers determine the right UNIX or RISC hardware and software to purchase, matching the configuration to the need. With the Penn community, establish and publish standards for UNIX workstation systems administration.
Offer workshops to train systems administrators.
Support for Library initiatives. These activities continue the efforts of Project Cornerstone. Grounded in Cornerstone principles and architectural models, they move Penn toward a new generation of systems that share data and work together to make business processes more effective and provide decision-support information. Deliver a long-range plan for integrated administrative data and systems. Support the development of requirements for a comprehensive financial management information system, the first of the new generation of integrated systems.