Supporting Open Source Software for Education
March 7, 2010
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from external blog: http://coppola.rsmart.com/2010/03/07/7/
I read the recent news about Rimini Street’s battle with Oracle with great interest this past week.
The Chronicle headline last Sunday was “A Small Company, Promising Major Savings on Vital Software, Lures Colleges.” The issue highlighted in the story:
Cost-conscious colleges are caught in the cross-fire of a legal battle between Rimini Street, the low-cost maintenance provider, and Oracle, a software powerhouse that serves hundreds of higher-education customers. In January, Oracle sued Rimini Street for running what Oracle calls an “illegal” and “corrupt” business model.
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April 30, 2009
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. --For a growing number of colleges and universities, Kuali Rice represents more than the underpinnings to core Kuali applications—it will also be the framework that is used to build any campus application in an agile fashion. Kuali Rice empowers developers to react to end-user business requirements in an efficient and productive manner that in turn facilitates the production and delivery of high quality business applications for all Carnegie-class institutions.