Designing and Implementing the CUNY Open Systems Center
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Author(s): Richie Rothbard Colette Wagner
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Presentation(s): CAUSE Conferences (Archives)
Abstract
The creation and operation of a high-end, technology-rich Open Systems Center at CUNY's Central Office will be presented in detail. The CUNY Open Systems Center is a development and training facility that provides formal workshop sessions in the use of new tools, and sponsors projects that prototype solutions to challenging technical problems encountered in academic and administrative computing environments at the University's 20 colleges. Like its parent institution, the Open Systems Center has been constructed as a heterogeneous computing environment. Conceived as an R&D facility for solving a variety of technical problems (such as choosing the correct platform for a particular mission critical application or experimenting with new means to publish/broadcast scholarly content), the Open Systems Center also provides opportunities for the University to share its research with the corporate world. As a controlled test environment for new products, it offers joint study opportunities for corporations to experiment safely with new technical solutions before implementing costly production systems. Paper presented at CAUSE94, the full proceedings of which are available through this Library as PUB1094.