OSS Not Ready for Prime Time in Education?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday March 2, 2006 @04:18AM from the prime-time-drive-time dept.

cel4145 writes "Inside Higher Ed reports that the Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness has released a new study, The State of Open Source Software. Is it true that open source is 'not quite ready for prime time' in education? Or, as I suspect, is the study just another proprietary software vendor funded report for discouraging the adoption of open source software?" From the article: "Lack of vendor support is one of the largest hurdles limiting the adoption of open source in higher education, Abel said. 'The biggest thing is it takes more physical labor to implement open source because it isn't pre-packaged,' Abel said. "You have to have software developers that can make this stuff work.'" Are the staffing issues associated with OSS enough to outweigh the benefits?

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Re:I don't see how you guys are commenting by A+beautiful+mind · 2006-03-02 04:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You actually wanted to read the article? You must be new here...

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It's a good thing... by Alorelith · 2006-03-02 04:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I've only been reading about the exact same crap for the past few years on slashdot. Is there anything more to this site than "is open source software ready yet?" Duplicate stories of stuff actually worth talking about is one thing, but hasn't this topic been covered way too many times for even moderately interesting discussion?