[LON-CAPA-users] Re: Hej, we're the number two!

[joan ferrini-mundy]

Great news! Congratulations.

Joan

At 3:02 PM -0400 5/1/03, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
>After a rather gloomy and very depressing day struggling with 
>unhappy and complaining users - Jeremy found this:
>
>http://www.xplana.com/whitepapers/archives/Open_Source_Courseware
>
>Guy translated some of the codes:
>
>>Scalability    - 5
>>Openness       - 5
>>Administration - 4
>>Implementation - 3
>>Functionality  - 4
>>Effectiveness  - 3
>
>A 4 was the highest they gave for functionality (tied with ATutor), 
>and a 24 overall score was the highest total score they gave (tied 
>with CHEF).
>
>The following is probably very fair:
>
>"LON-CAPA is long on functionality and support for extended 
>character sets and computation, but it's a bit short on user 
>friendliness."
>
>The review goes on:
>
>"It is a robust system built for enterprise scalability and handles 
>clustering well. This system is highly recommended as one of the 
>most promising candidates for providing traditional course 
>management functionality for large institutions. LON-CAPA is an 
>active participant in the standards movement and provides strong 
>documentation and development support."
>
>Now let's get the @$%# bugs out of the system ... release 1.0 is 
>coming dangerously close.


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Natural Science
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