Macquarie University

Vice-Chancellor's Office

Assessing the benefits of Gmail

Written by Steven Schwartz on July 21st, 2008

In a follow up to my earlier earlier blog on Gmail, the University of Auckland has now moved students and staff who wish to shift to web-based Gmail service. Macquarie was first in Australia to move students to Gmail but staff have not yet been (officially) moved, although responses to the blog made it clear […]

So, what about a new email system?

Written by Steven Schwartz on June 27th, 2008

The New South Wales Department of Education has bypassed Outlook and other email systems deciding instead to move their one million plus email accounts to Gmail.
Macquarie University did the same thing for student email accounts in September last year. Macquarie students have six gigabytes of storage, so no more annoying notices about exceeding the allocated […]