Linda Sandy Linda Sandy was present at the request of Bill Brooks, who facilitated the meeting in Karen Weller's absence. I. Announcements A. Student Academic Services portal Brooks noted that Student Academic Services is reportedly evaluating commercial portal products for use at Cal Poly. Clover said he's sent Armando Silva an e-mail inquiring about the reported efforts in SAS to buy or build a portal. IMS's currently supported on-line course management and course materials delivery application, Blackboard Inc.'s CourseInfo's latest release has a new set of features that together can be seen as a portal.
Blackboard requires licensees to operate the latest version in order to obtain support.
IMS will arrange a meeting with Blackboard marketing reps soon to get clarity on the Blackboard offering, direction and options. Also, members of the group were asked to e-mail Weller with a list of what they thought the primary and secondary risk factors to the first project's success were. Clover is working on getting pricing for the WebSphere upgrade. The CSU-wide Oracle license agreement covers it, and she believes that the campus should make wide use of the Oracle software whenever it offers comparable functionality to alternatives, so that scarce campus funds are not used for alternative solutions without a significant value add. The current proposal to upgrade WebSphere to 3.02 will have to be examined in this context.