Comments on: Why Oxford’s email sucks http://buhjillions.spikecurtis.com/why-oxfords-email-sucks/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:04:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Sebastian Rahtz http://buhjillions.spikecurtis.com/why-oxfords-email-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Sebastian Rahtz Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:16:17 +0000 http://buhjillions.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-6 The University of Oxford has a complex and very distributed IT infrastructure with very little central control. In most ways this is a good thing, but it has a disadvantage that large scale changes tend to happen slowly. This may explain why Herald's webmail interface has fallen behind, in relation to things which have moved as fast as gmail. However, as you note, an ambitious project was started last year with a very aggressive timetable, and you should see considerable change late this year and during 2009. We (I work for the university computing services) are very aware of the issues, I promise! and things will get better. The University of Oxford has a complex and very distributed IT infrastructure with very little central control. In most ways this is a good thing, but it has a disadvantage that large scale changes tend to happen slowly. This may explain why Herald’s webmail interface has fallen behind, in relation to things which have moved as fast as gmail. However, as you note, an ambitious project was started last year with a very aggressive timetable, and you should see considerable change late this year and during 2009.

We (I work for the university computing services) are very aware of the issues, I promise! and things will get better.

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