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Moving to an Open Source LMS: 3 Stories
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| Part of the reason for Sakai's success at
| the 2,200-student college--which self-
| supports Sakai internally, in contrast to
| many smaller schools--was approval of the
| move to open source, according to
| Instructional Technology Consultant Mary
| Glackin. She was a member of the original
| Sakai implementation team and is on the
| college's current Sakai management team.
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http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/04/07/moving-to-an-open-source-lms-3-stories.aspx
HowTo: Configure Wordpress To Use A Content Delivery Network (CDN)
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| Research shows that if your web pages take
| longer than 5 seconds to load, you lose 50%
| of your viewers and sales. You can speed up
| your wordpress blog by using a CDN to
| display content to users faster and more
| efficiently. You can distributes common
| files or content such as css, javascript,
| uploaded images, videos and much more
| through a CDN, which serves the content
| from the closest cdn edge server to the
| end-user. In this tutorial, I will explains
| how to configure Wordpress, Apache/Lighttpd
| webserver, Bind dns server to use a CDN to
| distribute your common files such as css,
| js, user uploaded files and lighten load on
| your web server.
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http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/wordpress-cdn-content-delivery-network-configuration.html
Related:
Unicon Assists Georgia Tech with Transition to Open Source Sakai from
Proprietary Learning Management System
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| "We believe they made the right choice as the open source Sakai will
| give them a much lower total cost of ownership, allow them to own
| and control their own software enhancements, and also allow them
| to contribute to and participate in the growing and thriving
| Sakai community."
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http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070326005977&newsLang=en
http://tinyurl.com/28ldrt
Melbourne uni drops Unix for Linux
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| In the meantime, new applications, like the student portal,
| are being deployed on Linux.
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http://www.comuterworld.com.au/index.php/id;1810776935;fp;4194304;fpid;1
University finds freedom, flexibility in open source business intelligence
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| But when all of Microsoft's "natural predators" began to die off,
| and Microsoft no longer made the university's needs a priority,
| Stephen found open source solutions a lot more attractive.
|
| [...]
|
| Gradually, Stephen's relationship with Microsoft changed, as the company
| took over more and more of the commercial operating system and business
| application space. "Lotus 1-2-3 went away [SEE BELOW], and WordPerfect
| isn't what it was," she says.
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http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/23/1729236&tid=101&tid=115
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