- Why shouldHigher Ed institutions consider Open Source
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- Open source software is easily obtainable
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- No upfront dollar cost
- Ability to download & install multiple options and test them out before investing large amounts of time and money
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- It engenders a feeling of community and sharing.
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- Connecting with other organizations using the same software, you can help each other instead of dealing with the product support staff on the phone.
- You can share your improvements with the software developers and give feedback on feature requests.
- No fixed annual cost for support
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ree the web budget from annual maintenance costs for support you likely won't use
- Support for Open Source Solutions comes first from within your organization.
- The Open Source Community is based on the idea of sharing and openness, so the developers and community members make themselves available to help others.
- your developers real ownership over the products they manage
- Giving developers the freedom and ability to improve, tweak or even just get and understanding for what is happening behind the scenes will make them better developers and they will be able to trouble shoot the software more effectively.
- Highly Customizable
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- Because you have direct access to the source code you have the limitless ability to customize the software to meet your specific needs.
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- How is the University of Montana using open source
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- MediaWiki for centrally hosted and supported Wiki's
- WordpressMu for our centralized blogging platform
- Joomla, with the Jcal Pro extension to manage our news and events
- Subversion is used by several departments on campus for source control & versioning
- We have several Linux servers.
- Departmental:
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- The School of Education uses Information Resource Management
- Admissions uses the MODx CMF to manage their website.