January 30, 2004

Big Systems: Living With Fewer Customizations

By FLORENCE OLSEN

Many cost-conscious business officers say that colleges in the future will need to rely more on packaged commercial software and less on homegrown systems. And when they say that, they could be talking about Cornell University.

At Cornell, graduate students majoring in computing and information science now pay different tuition rates depending on whether their home college is arts and sciences or engineering. The

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