[88] in Resnet-Forum
Re: Why?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Bronder)
Wed Dec 1 09:41:09 1993
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 09:24:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Pete Bronder <pb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
Cc:
In-Reply-To: <199312010154.RAA17518@violet.berkeley.edu>
Gee, I guess I gave the obvious reasons of preformance and
convienience and not the busine$$ reasons that were requested. I
suggest that in searching for financial justifications you then think
like a business and not an educational institution. Survey your current
group of students and find out what criteria they rank as most
important. Networking in residence halls might be towards the top of
the list as well as other aspects like better mattresses. You then make
changes to fit the market demand. If you cannot supply the demand then
the student looks elewhere to go to school like the college or
university down the street that has netwroking already in place (if that
is important to the student) thus your institution looses that money
(tuition).
Another train of thought is that if you build it, they will come. In
talking to freshmen every year I have found out that many of them
consider network availability to be very important to them and that is
why they choose to come here.
Pete Bronder
Head of Data Communications
Carnegie-Mellon University
Disclaimer- These are my sole opinions although others may share them.
