Developing an Open Source Community of Practice

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/MWR0563.pdf

This was an interesting overview of why an institution of higher learning would consider open source software. According to this author, commerical software is not geared towards institutions of higher learning because vendors look for ways to consolidate. Commerical vendors are not interested in a custom-made product. This observation seems to contradict the observations made in the Social Life for Information in which individualization would be paramount.