For those in your groups who might ask windows or mac, read the policy
shift Yale just did.

Kelly



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   BUSINESS WEEK ONLINE NEWS FLASH!
   August 28, 1997

   Edited by Douglas Harbrecht

   YALE TO FRESHMEN: DON'T PACK A MAC

   Bring money and clean sheets -- but not Apple Macintoshes. That's the
   advice Yale University is giving its incoming class of 1,310 freshmen.
   In an open letter to the frosh, Information Technology Services head
   Daniel Updegrove says students buying new computers are "strongly
   encouraged to select a Windows PC." The letter warns potential
   Apple-buyers that the school "cannot guarantee support for Macintoshes
   beyond June 2000."

   Why is Yale -- where 25% of last year's freshmen owned an Apple --
   losing faith in Apple? As Updegrove explains it, Macs are becoming
   increasingly incompatible with the school's brawny administrative
   software. The third-party code-writers developing new library, class
   scheduling, and grade-reporting systems are focusing almost
   exclusively on Windows. Adapting them for the Macintosh, says
   Updegrove, is becoming "an afterthought" for the school's computer
   programmers.

   Yale's advice is bad news for Apple. Education is one of the two areas
   -- along with graphics -- in which the Cupertino (Calif.) company is
   staking its future. According to Dataquest research, Apple is still
   the leading choice for America's schools, where it commands 28% of the
   total market segment (including higher education). Yet its educational
   sales slipped 6% in the second quarter. By comparison, market share
   for Dell Computer's Windows-based PCs has jumped from 9.6% to its
   current 11.3%.

   What's more, even Mac-happy campuses are slowly opening up their ranks
   to the Windows world. Dartmouth College, which has used Macintoshes
   exclusively since 1983, has for the first time hired a Windows
   specialist to answer student questions. Says Michael Gartenberg,
   reserch director at the Gartner Group: "Apple isn't down and out in
   education, but it's going to have to fight to protect that market."

   By Dennis Berman in New York


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