June 2, 2000
As Ever, Computing Officials Ask: Build or Buy?
Some colleges purchase administrative software; a few craft their own; most mix and match
Should colleges buy big administrative-computing systems, or build their own?
The buy-or-build dilemma has vexed campus information-technology experts for as long as colleges have had computers. But the issue has intensified with alltoo-common stories of administrative systems that cost research universities millions of dollars and take years to bring
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