Re: [school-discuss] The Sakai Project

[Cameron Miller <cdmiller@adams.edu>]

Sakai is a follow on to the uPortal project, which was pretty 
successful.  It is meant to compete with products like WebCT or 
Blackboard.  uPortal displaced commercial portals such as Campus 
Pipeline at many Universities.  The Pipeline folks actually incorporated 
uPortal compatibility to try and stem the tide.  Sakai will probably be 
as successful with courseware.  The uPortal mantra was "by Universities 
for Universities".

Personally I think there are a lot of good light weight portal and 
courseware products right now.  The big University folks seem to like 
java, java server pages, and high end hardware.  Maybe those make sense 
on 20,000 to 40,000 student campuses.

uPortal info:
http://mis105.mis.udel.edu/ja-sig/uportal/

The JA-SIG:
http://www.ja-sig.org/

- cameron
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Les Richardson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well, it looks impressive. The specs look impressive. It's a 2 year
> project with a couple of million bucks involved and 4 very serious
> institutions. 
> It's based on Enterprise level Java code.
>
> We'll see how this plays out.... Just because it's open source doesn't
> mean it's going to be a smashing success...
>
>
> Les Richardson
>
>
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Doug Loss wrote:
>
>
> > I just heard about this new course management system being developed:
> >
> > http://www.sakaiproject.org/
> >
> > I don't know anything about it, other than that it's website seems 
> > pretty heavy on management-speak.  Could you folks take a look at it and 
> >  give us your opinions?  Thanks!
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