NACS has recently sponsored several technical briefings by vendors who offer products and services intended for the educational community. NACS consulted campus support staff to narrow down which vendors and products were of interest, and then invited vendors to make campus presentations. The vendors were:

Nokia Display Products, who provided an overview and demonstration of Nokia monitors. Nokia is making a deliberate effort to increase its presence in the educational market by offering quality products at educational discounts.

Intel, who presented Video Conferencing products and outlined the “Intel CPU Roadmap,” Intel’s strategy for its family of processors.

Microsoft, who presented a technical overview of the new version of Windows NT about to be released (version 5.0 Beta 2) and described the strategic direction of Microsoft NT.

For detailed information about these presentations, please see NACS’ Computer Support Coordinator page:

http://www.nacs.uci.edu/support/csc

Suggestions about future vendor briefings are welcome, please contact Jan Vescera of NACS’ Indirect Support Team,JVescera@UCI.EDU.