Greetings,

On October 31, we announced our plans to test Apple's latest operating system, Leopard, against a number of widely-used applications on campus, like the testing conducted last winter for Microsoft's operating system, Vista. In this message, we would like to provide you with a brief update on the status of this project this week.

LEOPARD TESTING VOLUNTEERS
In an effort to complete all testing and provide information to the campus by November 30, we have identified, contacted, and confirmed volunteers from throughout the campus to test the compatibility of nearly 80 applications (a complete list of applications and volunteers is below). Many thanks to all of you who have volunteered to support this effort! If you are interested in testing an application, it's not too late! Please send us an email at ucdleopard@ucdavis.edu if you would like participate.

COMPATIBILITY TESTING
Rather than conducting comprehensive, industry standard testing on all applications in use on campus, our intent is to provide the community with information about the extent to which major applications in use at UC Davis are compatible with Leopard. To this end, we developed general test plans, which have been distributed to the volunteer testing group. The test plans are intended to be used as a basic framework for testing, and we have asked volunteers to expand on the testing criteria, as necessary, to provide the most useful information to the campus.

In order to facilitate the testing, the IT Express Computing Services Help Desk has loaned several Mac Leopard systems to volunteers in need of systems for testing. Additionally, Quico Gonzalez (IET-Academic Technology Services) has kindly loaned several of his Leopard licenses to the group. The application testing is currently underway, and results will be posted online on a campus Macintosh Web site by the end of this month.

LEOPARD PRESENTATIONS - NOVEMBER 26
In coordination with members of the UC Davis Mac SIG group, Paul Waterstraat and Shawn DeArmond, and Apple rep, Jarrod Wyrick, two Leopard presentations have been scheduled on November 26 and are open to the campus technical community. A two-hour presentation in the morning will cover the Leopard server, including a live demo, and a one-hour presentation in the afternoon will cover the Leopard client, including information on new features and differences between Leopard and the previous OS, Tiger. For the full agenda, please visit https://jukebox.ucdavis.edu/slc/Information/Apple/20071126_UC_Davis_Leopard_Presentations.pdf.

The presentations are scheduled as follows:

Leopard Server Presentation
2375 Academic Surge
10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Leopard Client Presentation
2375 Academic Surge
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.

If you plan to attend, please send your RSVP to ietrsvp@ucdavis.edu so that we can gauge the level of attendance.

If you have any questions or you would like to volunteer to test an application, please contact the project team at ucdleopard@ucdavis.edu.

Regards,

Sarah Robertson
IET - Client Services

APPLICATIONS AND VOLUNTEERS
ADmitMac    (Dale Hurt, University Relations)
Adobe - Acrobat    (Rodrigo Perez, Facilities: O&M)
Adobe - Acrobat Reader    (Rodrigo Perez, Facilities: O&M)
Adobe - Connect Pro    (Charlie Turner, IET - ATS)
Adobe - Dream Weaver    (Quico Gonzalez, IET - ATS)
Adobe - Flash    (Rodrigo Perez, Facilities: O&M)
Adobe - Illustrator    (Rodrigo Perez, Facilities: O&M)
Adobe - InDesign    (Rodrigo Perez, Facilities: O&M)
Adobe - Photoshop    (Rodrigo Perez, Facilities: O&M)
Adobe - Photoshop Element    (Rodrigo Perez, Facilities: O&M)
Adobe Creative Suite 3    (Quico Gonzalez, IET - ATS)
AIS/Citrix    (Dale Hurt, University Relations)
Almajest    (Earl Schellhouse, IET - ATS)
Banner    (Leng Thao & Peter Brinckerhoff, IET - VP & ADDA)
BBEdit    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
Camino    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
Citrix     (Dale Hurt, University Relations)
Confluence    (Mira Kaloper, IET - ADDA)
Cornell Spider    (Desktop Enterprise Solutions, IET - DCCS)
Crystal Reports    (Leng Thao, IET - Office of the Vice Provost)
DaFIS - Decision Support    (Jim Seibert & Jerome Williams, A&FS)
DESII    (Eric Rothgarn, Resource Management & Planning)
Dial-up Access / Modem Pool    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
EndNote    (Hemang Patel, Molecular & Cellular Biology)
Entourage    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
Eudora    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
Filemaker Pro    (Jackie Simmons, Engineering)
FileZilla    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
Firefox    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
Fugu    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
IBM Workplace Forms    (Jackie Simmons, Engineering)
IET Podcasting    (Charlie Turner, IET - ATS)
IET Webcasting    (Charlie Turner, IET - ATS)
InfoED    (Keith Young, Office of Research)
Jira    (Mira Kaloper, IET - ADDA)
JMP    (John Daniels, Institute of Governmental Affairs)
Listings / White Pages    (Laine Keneller, IET - ADDA)
Mac OS X Firewall    (Quico Gonzalez, IET - ATS)
Maple    (John Daniels, Institute of Governmental Affairs)
Mathematica    (John Daniels, Institute of Governmental Affairs)
McAfee Enterprise AV    (Paul Singh & Luis Molina, IET - DCCS)
MeetingMaker    (Jackie Simmons, Engineering)
Moobilenet    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
MoobilenetX    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
Mothra    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
MyInfo Vault    (Lisa Johnston, IET - ADDA)
MyUCDavis Course Management    (Brian Donnelly IET - ADDA)
MyUCDavis Email / Geckomail    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
MyUCDavis MySpace    (Brian Donnelly, IET - ADDA)
MyUCDavis Portal    (Brian Donnelly, IET - ADDA)
Netbackup Client    (Leng Thao, IET - Office of the Vice Provost)
Netscreen Web Interface    (Desktop Enterprise Solutions, IET - DCCS)
Norton Antivirus    (Aaron Cocker, School of Medicine)
Office 2004     (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
Official UC Davis Fonts    (Dale Hurt, University Relations)
OpenAFS    (William Chang, Economics)
OpenSSH    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
Parallels    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
PPS - Data Warehouse    (Linda Durst, IET - ADDA)
PPS - tn3270    (Linda Durst, IET - ADDA)
Provisions    (Eric Rothgarn, Resource Management & Planning)
SAS    (John Daniels, Institute of Governmental Affairs)
SciFinder    (Jackie Simmons, Engineering)
SIS    (Chris Redder, Registrar's Office)
SISweb    (Chris Redder, Registrar's Office)
SmartSite    (Nancy Wilkison & Vernon O'Connor, IET - ATS)
Sophos AV    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
SPSS    (John Daniels, Institute of Governmental Affairs)
StuffIt Expander    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
TextWranger    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
Thunderbird    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
Tripwire    (Desktop Enterprise Solutions, IET - DCCS)
UCDbuy    (William Chang, Economics)
Vmware Fusion    (Aaron Cocker, School of Medicine)
Windows Media Player / Flip4Mac    (IT Express, IET - DCCS)
Xeda    (Quico Gonzalez, IET - ATS)