5 Challenges for Open Source

As colleges turn to noncommercial software -- and try to develop their own -- they face new problems

Related articles: View all of the articles from this special supplement on information technologyBy JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Can colleges build better software for higher education than companies can? By pooling the knowledge and skills of their campus programmers, can academe outdo the likes of Oracle and Microsoft?

Hundreds of colleges are betting millions of dollars

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