rSmart Releases its Latest Sakai Service Pack: rSmart Sakai CLE 2.5.1
PHOENIX, AZ (August 6, 2008) – This week rSmart released its latest Sakai service pack: rSmart Sakai CLE 2.5.1. Part of rSmart's Sakai support and maintenance service includes regular service pack releases for clients. rSmart Sakai CLE 2.5.1 delivers to clients 153 bug fixes as well as 12 improvements and minor new features for a total of 165 resolved issues. Many issues were resolved by the Sakai community and have been picked up and packaged into this release by rSmart. Many others were issues rSmart discovered and resolved through the normal course of its ongoing support services with clients. Most of these fixes were pushed back into the community code base. As part of compiling a service pack, rSmart tests each fix and regression tests the entire system ensuring it's ready for immediate deployment. This continuous stream of service packs and updates ensures that rSmart support clients are using the latest, most up-to-date Sakai software code and provides them with ongoing security, stability, and peak performance for their installations.
"Without our support and maintenance services users of Sakai would have to regularly monitor the Sakai development email lists looking for important patches and fixes, routinely bring those patches into their individual environments, then rebuild, test, and redeploy the software each time they want an update. This can be a labor intensive process for most schools," said Chris Coppola, President of rSmart. "Our regular service packs take care of this maintenance activity on behalf of our clients. Our clients are then free to have their scarce personnel focus on more valuable tasks like helping faculty get the most out of Sakai instead of focusing effort on maintaining Sakai code. Just one of the many ways Sakai users benefit from rSmart's support."
The rSmart Sakai CLE 2.5.1 is available for hosted or on-site deployments immediately. To experience rSmart Sakai CLE 2.5.1 please visit http://www.sakaisandbox.com to sign up for a free account or download a full, easy-to-install version directly from rSmart’s website.
About rSmart
rSmart is the leading open source application software company serving the education market. rSmart packages, certifies, deploys, and supports a suite of enterprise financial, collaboration and learning applications for colleges, universities, and organizations serving grades K–12. As an active member of open source projects like Kuali and Sakai, rSmart is able to provide its clients with software applications specifically designed to meet the unique needs of educational institutions. This collaborative approach allows rSmart to offer open source applications that break the dependence of educational institutions on traditional proprietary software vendors.
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