Kent Brooks's Blog Posts Tagged 'software' (4)

Introduction

The Western Oklahoma State College story of IT adoption over the past 14 years is certainly one of flexibility and cost savings.   We can currently document approximately $350,000 in annual savings related to information technology  which go beyond the costs associated with Educational Discounts and “so called” Educational Discounts.  This number is very significant for a small institution with an annual budget of less than $13…

Re posted from the Western Oklahoma State College IT Blog

As an institution we have utilized open source tech and ultimately driven costs down in many of our technological deployments. We still talk to people who think that one of our primary motivators is cost

reduction. I would argue cost is a by product rather than a driver. I

believe the primary driver is user expectation. If you can’t…