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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Why Folks Are Nervous - Part 3

As blog readers will know, the campus Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution of concern about the plan to consolidate the various local IT system into one unified system: One IT.

Yours truly suspects that the concern is based on the proposition that there could be screw ups and that things could be worse rather than a love for what they have now. The thing about now, is that it works. The thing about the future is that it might not.

As we have pointed out in past postings, UC has not had a great track record in replacing computer systems with large new ones.

Tucked away in the chancellor's letter of response to the resolution is the statement that "the decision about if we will proceed with One IT has already been made" and that now we are in the implementation phase. So there you are.

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Maybe we were better off with UCLA's mechanical brain, back in the day:

Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIinz4fKGpo.

Just a thought...

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