March 24, 2000

Software Billionaire Aims to Create Free Online University

In the ideal world of Michael J. Saylor, we all would have grown up watching videotapes of Michelangelo giving sculpture lessons. That dream may be an impossibility, Mr. Saylor admits, but what about watching Michael Jordan teach a course on how to be a team player, or Steven Spielberg lecture on filmmaking?

Last week, Mr. Saylor announced that he had donated $100-million of his own money to create an online university that will broadcast courses taught by