techNOcool

I'm on a group that is considering options for campus for calendar/email/file sharing/collaboration/etc.... It's a very long term discussion, nothing official yet. (Kind of like this blog, except it has a more narrowly defined agenda and a finite goal to reach and be done.) Phil recently posted some options he heard about from Microsoft, and I thought I'd cross post a little to discuss some of what is going on out there. I think people expect that all of these components should talk to each other seamlessly, and it reflects poorly on computing when they don't. Integration has become my new watchword. If it doesn't integrate, then it should go home. Integration makes even a mediocre interface and lack of features look okay.