Where do our institutions stand?
n Most are tracking OSS developments
n Most agree: higher education should create
software to meet our unique needs
n Most see interoperability as important as OSS
licensing
n Few have any official strategy on OSS
n A few don’t use OSS now
Why?  Costs, lack of support, no accountability, too
busy, immature OSS, no resources to shift to OSS
Data from October, 2004 survey of EDUCAUSE CIO list