The Chronicle of Higher Education

Next Up for Open Source: Financial Systems

2 universities team up to create free software to help colleges manage their money

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Frustrated by the high cost of commercial financial-management software, Indiana University and the University of Hawaii are leading an effort to build a free, open-source alternative. The project's leaders say the effort could save colleges millions of...

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