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Thursday, July 15, 2004
Universities to Release Free Course-Management Software - JEFFREY R. YOUNG, Chronicle of Higher Education
A cooperative venture by several major universities to build free course-management software is expected to release the first version of its product today, together with the complete source code, so that any college or individual can customize and enhance the program. The effort, called the Sakai Project, named for a chef on a popular cable-television cooking show, could draw business away from commercial vendors -- mainly Blackboard Inc., which went public this year, and WebCT Inc. -- that sell similar software to thousands of colleges worldwide. But even the developers of the new software concede that Version 1.0, which will be available free from the project's Web site, is not a mature product, and that they do not expect many colleges to use Sakai extensively until Version 2.0 is released next summer.
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