Kuali develops open source financial and ERP applications for universities
Posted by: Anonymous
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on April 25, 2008 07:55 PM
This is good news especially for smaller community colleges. The Banner system used by City College of San Francisco cost a million and a half dollars, and costs $150,000 a year for maintenance, AND requires a consulting firm charging another $200,000 a year to do annual upgrades. It's absurdly complicated and basically is a "shrunk-down" mainframe application from years ago ported first to a client-server environment, and then to a Java-based Web environment - but the screens are still ridiculous designs from the mainframe days.
I've advocated for the last several years that open source could reproduce the functionality of this system. It would takes several years of work, but the colleges and universities using Banner aren't going away, so they could take the time and budget it to be done over several years.
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Kuali develops open source financial and ERP applications for universities
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 71.131.204.162] on April 25, 2008 07:55 PMI've advocated for the last several years that open source could reproduce the functionality of this system. It would takes several years of work, but the colleges and universities using Banner aren't going away, so they could take the time and budget it to be done over several years.
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