I forgot to mention  there is a webcast about G.g today at 11am est
go here
http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=11256&s=1&k=C759A231D90C42F2939152CD48738CF

live questions -- Why not Mac? for example

Bob
xxxxxx@umich.edu

On Mar 9, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Richard Magyar wrote:

Hi,

Has anyone come across a submission in which using the new grants.gov
process was MANDATORY?

My understanding was that the grants.gov system would be phased in
gradually, with only voluntary participation for at least the next year
or
so.  Imagine my surprise when we found out that our latest DOE grant
REQUIRES the grants.gov submission mechanism.

The problem, for us, is in the software grants.gov requires us to use.
The
“PureEdge” viewer is incompatible with Macintoshes, and the company
developing that software (PureEdge Solutions) has no plans to ever
create a
Mac solution.

They recommend using VirtualPC, which is awkward and unreliable
workaround.

I’d originally hoped that grants.gov would mature as a service in the
next
year or so, and eventually expand it’s support to  multiple platforms.
"Fastlane" is a good example of exactly that kind of success through
graduate service roll-out.

But if we are all to be required to use this new service more-or-less
immediately, then waiting for the bugs to be worked out will NOT be an
option.

Anyone else in the same boat?
Anyone have any insight on grants.gov or solutions to these platform
issues?

--
Thanks for your time,

Rich Magyar
Systems Administrator
Eastern Michigan University
Graduate Studies & Research
734-487-3090
xxxxxx@emich.edu

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