<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">FYI, here is the response I received from STS toward the end of last year about supporting Mac printing. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Honestly, I never replied b/c I was just too frustrated. Roger was polite (as you can read), but I just don't think he seriously considered this. I never asked for full support, only PCounter support, which I believe could be enabled, tested and launched with less than 10 hours work.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Anyway, I have become too aggressive about this topic to take the lead diplomatically. I hope somebody else can pick this up and run with it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- John<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>________________</DIV><DIV>John Harthorne</DIV><DIV>MBA Candidate, Class of 2007</DIV><DIV>MIT Sloan School of Management</DIV><DIV>Cell: 617.894.3425</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:jharthorne@sloan.mit.edu">jharthorne@sloan.mit.edu</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><DIV><BR><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Roger Premo" <<A href="mailto:rpremo@sloan.mit.edu">rpremo@sloan.mit.edu</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">April 24, 2006 9:57:21 AM EDT</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"'John Harthorne'" <<A href="mailto:jharthorne@sloan.mit.edu">jharthorne@sloan.mit.edu</A>>, <<A href="mailto:doucette@mit.edu">doucette@mit.edu</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Cc: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><<A href="mailto:studentsupport@sloan.mit.edu">studentsupport@sloan.mit.edu</A>>, <<A href="mailto:chammond@sloan.mit.edu">chammond@sloan.mit.edu</A>>, <<A href="mailto:adaniel@sloan.mit.edu">adaniel@sloan.mit.edu</A>>, <<A href="mailto:sascha@sloan.mit.edu">sascha@sloan.mit.edu</A>>, <<A href="mailto:anzolah@sloan.mit.edu">anzolah@sloan.mit.edu</A>>, <<A href="mailto:kurt.campbell@sloan.mit.edu">kurt.campbell@sloan.mit.edu</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>RE: Enabling Mac support for Pcounter</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">John,</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">I’ve been doing some thinking about this and also conducted my own informal survey. I would recommend that Mac support is a low priority for Sloan. I’m happy to discuss this with you but my reasoning is basically the following:</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -24px; "><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN style="mso-list:Ignore; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; ">1)</SPAN><FONT size="1" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font:7.0pt " times="" new="" roman";="" color:="" rgb(0,="" 0,="" 128);="" font-family:="" roman;="" font-size:="" 9.33333px;="" text-indent:="" -24px;=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 9.33333px; text-indent: -24px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; ">STS has very limited funds. Any decision as drastic as supporting a new platform must be entered into very cautiously.</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -24px; "><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN style="mso-list:Ignore; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; ">2)</SPAN><FONT size="1" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font:7.0pt " times="" new="" roman";="" color:="" rgb(0,="" 0,="" 128);="" font-family:="" roman;="" font-size:="" 9.33333px;="" text-indent:="" -24px;=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 9.33333px; text-indent: -24px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; ">Given the limited resources STS should (in my opinion) focus on high impact projects. For instance, they are working now to add a search engine to SloanSpace. That is a project that benefits 100% of Sloan students, faculty and staff rather than the 5-10% of Mac users. Given the limited funding environment, any new project must be viewed as a tradeoff with the other projects it would replace. For now, we have a long list of future projects with broad impact.</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -24px; "><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN style="mso-list:Ignore; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; ">3)</SPAN><FONT size="1" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font:7.0pt " times="" new="" roman";="" color:="" rgb(0,="" 0,="" 128);="" font-family:="" roman;="" font-size:="" 9.33333px;="" text-indent:="" -24px;=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 9.33333px; text-indent: -24px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; ">Supporting a platform with the mixed technology environment is far more complex than you might imagine. I’m not certain the effort would be limited to Pcounter. Saying that a particular platform is supported means that all the other possible problems along the way must be considered. Should simulation software used for various classes be usable on Macs also?</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -24px; "><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN style="mso-list:Ignore; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; ">4)</SPAN><FONT size="1" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font:7.0pt " times="" new="" roman";="" color:="" rgb(0,="" 0,="" 128);="" font-family:="" roman;="" font-size:="" 9.33333px;="" text-indent:="" -24px;=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 9.33333px; text-indent: -24px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; ">Apple is making moves to make Windows more usable for Mac users with programs such as Boot Camp.</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -24px; "><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN style="mso-list:Ignore; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; ">5)</SPAN><FONT size="1" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font:7.0pt " times="" new="" roman";="" color:="" rgb(0,="" 0,="" 128);="" font-family:="" roman;="" font-size:="" 9.33333px;="" text-indent:="" -24px;=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 9.33333px; text-indent: -24px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; ">I, along with other students, choose not to run any of the printing programs on my PC. The pain of emailing a file to yourself or using a memory stick to print from the computing lab is negligible. The pain of no Pcounter is simply not a pressing problem.</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: -24px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">I’d also invite the other members of the IT committee to comment.</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Regards,</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Roger</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; "></SPAN><HR size="2" width="100%" align="center" tabindex="-1"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><B style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; "><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; ">From:</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></B><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "> John Harthorne [<A href="mailto:jharthorne@sloan.mit.edu">mailto:jharthorne@sloan.mit.edu</A>] </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><B style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; "><SPAN style="font-weight:bold; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; ">Sent:</SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "> Wednesday, April 05, 2006 2:32 PM</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><B style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; "><SPAN style="font-weight:bold; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; ">To:</SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "> <A href="mailto:doucette@mit.edu">doucette@mit.edu</A></SPAN><BR style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><B style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; "><SPAN style="font-weight:bold; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; ">Cc:</SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "> <A href="mailto:studentsupport@sloan.mit.edu">studentsupport@sloan.mit.edu</A>; <A href="mailto:chammond@sloan.mit.edu">chammond@sloan.mit.edu</A>; <A href="mailto:adaniel@sloan.mit.edu">adaniel@sloan.mit.edu</A>; <A href="mailto:sascha@sloan.mit.edu">sascha@sloan.mit.edu</A>; <A href="mailto:anzolah@sloan.mit.edu">anzolah@sloan.mit.edu</A>; <A href="mailto:kurt.campbell@sloan.mit.edu">kurt.campbell@sloan.mit.edu</A>; </SPAN><ST1:PERSONNAME w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><A href="mailto:rpremo@sloan.mit.edu">rpremo@sloan.mit.edu</A></SPAN></ST1:PERSONNAME><BR style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><B style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; "><SPAN style="font-weight:bold; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: bold; ">Subject:</SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13.3333px; "> Re: Enabling Mac support for Pcounter</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></P></DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">Mr. Doucette:</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">Thank you.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">Student IT Senate:</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">I strongly encourage you to introduce Mac support moving forward. There are a significant number of mac users on campus despite the lack of support, and you can bet this number will only increase moving forward. We have initiated a self-support group via the mailing list "macinsloan". Together, we have solved all IT-related issues, except printing. If you adopt mac support, our mailing list content can feed sloan's documentation on mac support. As for printing, the print servers no longer support IP printing, because of the P-Counter system. P-Counter does, in fact, support macintosh printing, but our servers are not configured to enable this feature.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">Essentially,Sloan is very, very close to being able to offer full mac compatibility. As far as I know, we are the only MIT school that does not support macs.Personally, I find the lack of mac support both functionally frustrating and philosophically absurd -- historically, MIT has been one of the world's biggest contributors to Unix, the open source movement, and computing interoperability. Now, when Apple is producing a world-class and elegant operating system based on an open-source kernel and Microsoft is adrift in a sea of seeming-incompetence and anti-trust suits, we are only supporting Windoze?!? Arrggghh.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">Anyway, ranting aside, please consider this a serious request for mac support. It is not difficult, and it is the "right thing to do". I will be more than happy to assist in any way possible.Please see the attached PDF for more information on how to configure the print servers to enable mac support. I would be happy to provide further data on how to mount shared volumes and other setup details as necessary.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">FYI, I will forward this email to the macinsloan mailing list for the benefit of transparency.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">Thanks,</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">John Harthorne</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><SPAN style="border-spacing: 0px 0px;text-align:auto;-khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto;orphans: 2;widows: 2;word-spacing:0px"><DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">________________<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">John Harthorne<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">MBA Candidate, Class of 2007<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on"><FONT size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; color:black">MIT</SPAN></FONT></ST1:PLACENAME><FONT size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Sloan</ST1:PLACENAME><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">School</ST1:PLACETYPE></SPAN></FONT></ST1:PLACE><FONT size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Helvetica;color:black"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>of Management<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Cell: 617.894.3425<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><A href="mailto:jharthorne@sloan.mit.edu"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">jharthorne@sloan.mit.edu</SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></SPAN></DIV></DIV></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>