In a £11m deal with Oracle and ICL, the service is using Oracle's 11i CRM suite to support 20 staff handling applications from 1,2000 students at once. The system will later be extended to allow students to check the progress of their applications...
So convinced is he that Linux has earned its corporate stripes that he's told the hackers, scientists and students who make the annual pilgrimage to San Francisco to get ready for the suits (http://www.silicon.com/a55124).
As we arrived at the office today, Sun CEO Scott McNealy had just finished the latest leg of his Asian tour, saying how his company will give $300m worth of software to students and universities there.
Similarly the major anti-virus vendors are adamant that there will be no place in their organisations for students of this course - negating the purported reasons for running it in the first place. The tide has turned in favour of the University of...
One of the world's largest virtual learning organisations - even before the web took education onto another level - the OU will roll out the technology to 6,500 users, who deal with over 200,000 students.
Red Hat and SuSE Linux, the top two sellers of the Linux open-source operating system, are launching new discounts to attract students and educational institutions - a strategically important customer set for technology companies.