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A group of U.S. universities is blazing a new path in open source software. They're building a set of enterprise applications — the big, important, mission-critical ones that have long been the exclusive domain of software companies such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft.
The first application is the Kuali Financial System, a financial management application designed from the outset for the specific requirements of colleges and universities. It's available under a variant of the Apache 2.0 license. Strikingly, the first deployment is a small school in Nairobi, Kenya: Strathmore University, which estimated that it cut deployment costs by more than half compared with using a commercial product.
The software project is being overseen by the Kuali Foundation, a nonprofit group that brings together academic institutions, grant funding and a small but growing list of commercial partners, all committed to an open source software model for a suite of administrative applications. The name is an Indonesian word for "wok," a common but indispensable utensil in a Malay kitchen. The overall approach is similar to that of the Sakai Foundation, a higher education project focused on a learning management system.
Other Kuali projects are focusing on administering grant applications and awards (based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Coeus software), a student information system and endowment management. The foundation creates a community around each project, with teams responsible for collaborative design and coding.
Click to see: How Kuali uses open sourcing
"The critical reason we're all doing this is the idea of controlling our own destiny," says John "Barry" Walsh, director of university information systems at Indiana University. "We're acutely aware that we're a quirky market," Walsh says. "We don't even want to pay wholesale [prices]. And when we buy your product, we're going to badger you to change every little thing."
Walsh is just as acutely aware that badgering doesn't do much good with big ERP software vendors. "Higher ed is one percent of Oracle's total global market," he says. "That is zero leverage."
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What language?By John Cox on April 1, 2008, 5:23 pmI cited "kuali" as Malaysian, because that's what Kuali's originator, Barry Walsh, told me. I've found numerous Web references that seem to confirm this.
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KualiBy Anonymous on April 1, 2008, 3:54 amPlease correct, Kuali is not a malaysian word but it's a Indonesian language for wok. Thanks.
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