"Open to Open Source" Open source software has found a permanent home on some college campuses. But according to a study released today by the Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness, open source products, which enable programmers to modify code and customize programs, have yet to reach the masses of academe.
Kenneth Green, founding director of the Campus Computing Project, which studies the role of technology in higher education, calls the mindset regarding open source “affirmative ambivalence.” Chief information officers are confident the software will be a part of the future but are still taking a wait-and-see approach, Green said. Read more: http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/03/01/open and about the study here: http://www.a-hec.org/open_source_state.html Summary Table of Open Source Adoption in Higher Education (Excerpts) Parameter Study Results [They look much nicer in the schema] Note: Percentages shown are estimates of the percentage of all U.S. institutions. Implementation of open source infrastructure products 57% Leading open source infrastructure products Apache (53%), Linux (51%), MySQL (38%), Firefox (35%), and Tomcat (33%) Open source infrastructure products replaced or considered for replacement† Web server (44%), operating system (34%), web browser (33%), database (32%) Implementation of open source or open source compatible application products 25% Leading open source application or open source compatible application products uPortal (7%), OpenOffice (6%), SCT Luminis Platform (6%), Moodle (5%), Sakai (4%), Unicon Academus (3%), and OSPI (2%). Application vendors replaced or considered for replacement by open source or open source compatible products† Microsoft (19%), Blackboard (17%), WebCT (16%), and homegrown software (15%) Open source or open source compatible applications being most considered right now Sakai (28%), Moodle (23%), uPortal (20%), OpenOffice (15%), OSPI (12%), OKI (10%), SCT Luminis Platform (9%), and Kuali (8%), Perceptions of which open source or open source compatible applications are viable today uPortal (29%), SCT Luminis Platform (29%), OpenOffice (21%), Moodle (19%), Sakai (13%), Unicon Academus (9%), and OSPI (7%) Percent of institutions that have not yet given serious consideration to open source 32% Top reasons why open source has not yet been seriously considered - Lacking the resources to implement - An unclear future for open source in higher education - Satisfaction with current non-open source products (and therefore no reason to change) - The costs are not clear ---- This is a US study- but where are we? Best regards Anne _______________________________________________ Masterlibre-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/masterlibre-list
