RE: Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] Inquiry about ArsDigita

["Ian Bruk" <ibruk@eduverse.com>]

Tom:

Would be interested hear more about the seminar. Was OpenACS discussed?

I forgot to mention that what got me interested was a news release in which
the World Bank announced it has adopted ArsDigita's platform for their
Global Development Gateway.

P.S. Thanks for the input from all concerned.

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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] Inquiry about ArsDigita


I attended a two day Ars-Digita workshop

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> Ian Bruk wrote:
>
> >> From my understanding they are an Open Source offering with many
> >> functions that pertain to education.If this has already been
> >> discussed on these boards before could someone point me to the
> >> relevant threads otherwise I was wondering if anyone else is
> >> familiar with ArsDigita.
>
> The ArsDigita Community System <http://www.arsdigita.com/> runs over
> Apache or AOLServer and requires an Oracle 8i RDBMS.  You may want
> to look at OpenACS <http://openacs.org>, which is GPLed and runs on
> AOLServer and PostgreSQL.  I don't know how widely it's used in
> education, but this page, <http://openacs.org/sites.html> has links
> to a number of places that use it.
>
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