Comment by walrus01
7 hours ago
Running on prem or homegrown systems used to be considered a core competency of having a computer science department and a campus-wide IT/networking staff at a university. In the environment that exists today in academia, for instance, BSD would never be created because somebody could just pay a third party external vendor for some packaged product. What happened in the past 20 years to change that? I really wonder.
But you don't extend that same argument for an agricultural research department by asking them to have a homegrown farm for supplying the university with food!
I dont think a competent CS department requires their being a homegrown or on-prem system for use in the university. That could happen, but if resources could be better spent by purchasing rather than building, then that should be the correct choice.