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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Texas Christian University’s BIS Program is in the process of re-designing undergraduate Information Systems Development course and our faculty would be interested in hearing from those of you who have considered recently or adopted a cloud platform for teaching systems development, e.g., Windows Azure, force.com, etc. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>If there is a sufficient response, I will summarize the results and send the findings back to the list.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Please send your response directly to b.jones@tcu.edu.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting"'>Beata M. Jones, Ph. D.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Professor of Professional Practice in Business Information Systems | Neeley Fellows Program Director <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Neeley School of Business | Texas Christian University | Box 298530 | Fort Worth, TX 76129<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Phone: 817 257 6948 | Email: </span><a href="mailto:b.jones@tcu.edu"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>b.jones@tcu.edu</span></a><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'> | Skype: ITDocB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Personal website: </span><a href="http://sbuweb.tcu.edu/bjones"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>http://sbuweb.tcu.edu/bjones</span></a><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>| Neeley Fellows: </span><a href="http://www.neeleyfellows.tcu.edu/"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>http://www.neeleyfellows.tcu.edu/</span></a><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>