Who picked Google Apps and Microsoft Live?
Near the end of 2007, two task forces, one for faculty and staff and one for students, were commissioned to evaluate the university’s email and calendar services. Seven students and eight faculty and staff served on the Task Force for Student Personal Productivity Services. The task force engaged in a careful and thoughtful analysis that included assessment of student needs via a random survey, discussions with other universities, and vendor responses to a Request For Purchase (RFP). Part of their analysis included gathering statistics on Cornell’s email forwarding service, which showed that over 4,000 students routed their Cornell mail to a Google account, over 600 routed to a HotMail account, and smaller numbers to other vendor domains (AOL, RoadRunner, etc.) In May 2008, the student task force recommended Google Apps Education Edition and Microsoft Live@edu with Outlook Live as the best options for students. President Skorton and Cornell’s senior administrators accepted this recomme
