February 27, 2006
IT Goes D.I.Y.
When Glendale Community College's contract with its computer vendor expired, campus officials made an unorthodox decision: Instead of entertaining offers from computer retailers, they figured they could build their own machines from scratch.
So far, the officials say, that strategy has paid off. Campus technicians have assembled almost 800 machines from parts, and they say they've saved about $200,000 on computing costs in the process. And some faculty and staff members say it has been easier to get computers tailored to meet specific needs since the college started building the machines in house. (The Arizona Republic)
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The School of Optometry at UAB as been doing this successfully for over 10 years. It not only reduces cost but decreases turnaround time for fixes since we have all the spare parts and loaner computers if it will take longer than the user can be without a computer.
— David Corliss Feb 28, 10:45 AM #