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by bombcar 483 days ago
You've found out a huge reason cloud took off so hard. Lots of it is shadow-IT.

Nobody except a few universities actually uses subdomains as they should be, where you actually delegate the subdomain to the business unit using it.

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I tried to access gettysburg.edu the other day and was greeted by a stupid redirect page (with a meta refresh tag) insisting on use of www rather than just issuing the redirect immediately.

The reality is they're stuck in 1995 and won't make rational changes.

I think someone extremely rational is making a lot of big changes and I could not be more excited to see the outcome.