July 30, 2004
CIC Teaching and Learning Mentors
Institute
and open source
lJune 2004 Open Source Summit
lThe Issues
lRisk management
lConsolidation among commercial vendors; products
discontinued
lCost containment
lCommercial software is expensive;
lQuality of software
lNot customizable to our needs
lSpeed of development and customization
lCompliance with vendor schedules
lThe needs
lA primer on open source in higher education
lFor executive administration as well as IT
management
lA better understanding of models of collaboration
lIt’s costly and IHE may not be great at it
lBetter licensing models
lFor-profit partners to support open source
applications
lCriteria for evaluating open source software
