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Thursday, April 11, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/04/2002041101t.htm U. of Michigan Cancels a Closely Watched Portal Project FLORENCE OLSEN The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor announced on Monday that it will close down its bellwether portal, my.umich.edu, on June 30, a little more than a year after offering the personalized Web space to its students. Campus officials say the university can no longer sustain such a complex and expensive software-development project on its own. Michigan has no plans to replace the portal with a commercial alternative. The portal provides students with Web-based information and services such as personalized bookmarks for Web sites, calendars, and e-mail, to which they can gain access from any computer....
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