Thus, a major part of this plan is to provide Windows capability to all the MS-DOS users in the College. Another part of the plan is to provide support for Mac users that is equivalent to that provided to MS-DOS users. This includes email, network software, and printer support. An important consideration in developing the plan was to avoid disrupting the work of the College by forcing a major change on everyone. The WordPerfect Office menu and the DOS software on it will continue to be available.
Users can switch to the new software on their own schedule.
At the present time, essentially no one in the College has the complete set of what we are including in baseline support. Many people have some of the new software, usually the parts that are most important for their efficient functioning. It is far more cost effective to provide baseline support for everyone at one time than it is to add users incrementally. An important part of this plan is to use software metering to control the concurrent use of software. Almost every current software license allows us to use concurrent use rather than total users as a basis for the number of licenses required.