Six papers from the 1988 CAUSE conference's Track VI, Hardware/Software/Networking Strategies, are presented. They include: "Technological Synergies Are No Accident!" (James I. Penrod and Michael G. Dolence); "Augmentation Quotient" (William H. Branch); "Step 2: Of Bridges and Gateways--The Linking of Winthrop College's Novell NetWare LANs" (William J. Moressi and C. Brown McFadden); "Which Comes First--The Plan or the System?" (Donald L. Hardcastle); "A Handy Guide to Campus Telecommunications" (Gene T. Sherron); and "Public Infrastructure Networks: The INdiana TELEcommunications NETwork Case Study" (Thomas I. M. Ho and Edward J. Tully). (SM)