Strategic decisions on technology selections for facilitating a network/systems laboratory using real options & total cost of ownership theories

Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Information Technology Curriculum, CITC4 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 76-92

  Lei, Kimfong ^a   Rawles, Phillip T ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Course development; Curriculum; End user computing; Innovative lab strategies in IT; Interesting applications in IT; Networking; Operating systems; Systems software; Vmware

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

COURSE DEVELOPMENT; END USER COMPUTING; INNOVATIVE LAB STRATEGIES IN IT; INTERESTING APPLICATIONS IN IT; NETWORKING; SYSTEMS SOFTWARE; VMWARE;

CURRICULA;

EID: 84862445552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/947121.947139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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