October 11, 2002

U. of Michigan Opens Up Homegrown Software

By FLORENCE OLSEN

Two popular academic-software tools developed at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor are being rewritten as open-source tools in collaboration with other institutions. The decision reflects a new focus on collaboration and open standards for in-house software projects, says a university official.

The projects that are affected are UM.CourseTools, which is used by more than 30,000 students and 1,500 faculty members for teaching and learning, and UM.WorkTools, related software that

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