Why Does Northwestern Have Terrible Technology Contracts?

Colleges & Universities Northwestern University
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<p>Northwestern does not seem to care about securing technology deals for its students. </p>

<p>At Indiana University, you can buy Windows Vista Ultimate for $20 from the campus bookstore, at Northwestern, Windows Business Edition (a downgrade from Premium) is $75</p>

<p>online at Dell.com, many universities have huge discount deals… northwestern? has no deals, only the traditional Dell student discount available to students at any college.</p>

<p>why is this and why doesn’t northwestern get on this.</p>

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<p>You should go to ASG with your concerns.</p>

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<p>Maybe northwestern realizes how terrible Vista is and is subversively raising the price so we arent running it on our comps next year.</p>

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<p>i think the thing is that they provide stuff to students for free sometimes, if you need it.</p>

<p>for instance, i know that comp.eng students get vista business free</p>

<p>also, many freshman mac users got a copy of xp to bootcamp to be able to use matlab</p>

<p>maybe it’s a conscientious use of resources?</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.dell.com/northwestern[/url]”>http://www.dell.com/northwestern&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You lose, try again. 12% discount is pretty damn good. I’ll admit the price point on Vista is unhappy, but so it goes, as is the lack of discounts on Adobe software. I mean, there are always the 5-keystroke discount, if you catch my drift and you’re willing to do that.</p>

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<p>i wish they had some sort of deal with lenovo. just wondering, does lenovo partner with universities or just specific mba programs?</p>

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<p>elsijfdl,</p>

<p>I tried
<a href=“http://www.dell.com/northwestern[/url]”>http://www.dell.com/northwestern&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.dell.com/cornell[/url]”>http://www.dell.com/cornell&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.dell.com/stanford[/url]”>http://www.dell.com/stanford&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>and they all appeared to have the same deal.</p>

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<p>12% is the standard dell education discount available to any person with a .edu email address</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.kw.edu/online-education-dell-student-discount.asp?active=discounts[/url]”>http://www.kw.edu/online-education-dell-student-discount.asp?active=discounts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.riosalado.edu/studentpurchase/[/url]”>http://www.riosalado.edu/studentpurchase/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.carrollcc.edu/studentlife/discounts/dellpricing.asp[/url]”>http://www.carrollcc.edu/studentlife/discounts/dellpricing.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.foundationccc.org/Default.aspx?tabid=138[/url]”>http://www.foundationccc.org/Default.aspx?tabid=138&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.nnu.edu/dell/[/url]”>http://www.nnu.edu/dell/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://premier.dell.com/portal/messages.aspx?c=US&l=en&s=eep&cs=RC809308[/url]”>http://premier.dell.com/portal/messages.aspx?c=US&l=en&s=eep&cs=RC809308&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://premier.dell.com/portal/messages.aspx?c=US&l=en&s=eep&cs=RC965368[/url]”>http://premier.dell.com/portal/messages.aspx?c=US&l=en&s=eep&cs=RC965368&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“Online Undergraduate Degrees and Graduate Degrees | eLearners”>http://community.elearners.com/blogs/kaplan_management_degree/archive/2007/04/30/Kaplan_2700_s-Discount-With-Dell.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>like i said

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<p>edit: and sam lee, university of florida and drake college, among others, recently had as much as 30% off certain dell models.</p>

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<p>Give one example of these huge discounts and I’ll gripe alongside you. Until then…</p>

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<p><a href=“TechnologyGuide - TechTarget”>TechnologyGuide - TechTarget;

<p>berkeley, drake, florida (page 7)</p>

<p><a href=“TechnologyGuide - TechTarget”>TechnologyGuide - TechTarget;

<p>drake</p>

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<p>Take a look at the following link. Seems to show significant discounts on software through NUIT.
<a href=“Service Catalog - Software and Applications”>Service Catalog - Software and Applications;

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<p>The Drake Discount was a pricing error…</p>

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<p>no, they labeled it an error when people started abusing it, whatever dude</p>

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<p>by the way, if you’re concerned about windows vista, <a href=“News and Events: Information Technology - Northwestern University”>News and Events: Information Technology - Northwestern University;

<p>NU doesnt suggest students to get it yet</p>

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<p>Why provide discounts when nobody complains? The student body is so small that even if a sizable percentage complains, it’s still only a handful of people.</p>

<p>NUIT wants to save money. </p>

<p>Providing site licenses for windows, and office is very expensive. I know that the University of Kentucky just signed huge contracts with Microsoft to provide Vista, and Office 2007 for all students and alumni. I use my Dad’s laptop since his work provides site licenses for lots of software.</p>

<p>Kellogg, and Medill grad school forces students to buy particular thinkpads. I remember it was somewhere in the range of $2500 for the Medill versions.</p>

<p>The discounts are mediocre at best. You can generally get these discounts just by using another school’s purchase site or even just waiting for coupons. I have friend’s that buy dell’s by clicking on links from other schools, because they offer a slightly better deal. I bought software from UFlorida’s website because it was very cheap.</p>

<p>As for Vista. There is really no reason to get it. NUIT is just covering their butts. Symantec Antivirus that NUIT provides doesn’t work with Vista yet. There is a version that does but they don’t make an easy link to it, and it only works on Vista. Rescons and “tech bay” support. But other than that all new versions of major software support vista. If they don’t they don’t use them. I mean seriously vista has been beta testing for years now, and if major software developers still can’t update their software then they are probably bad software.</p>