Enterprise Resource Planning and Open Source

This forty-seven minute podcast features a session recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference. The session, "The Community Source Model: Promise or Peril for Higher Ed?," features Adrian Sannier, University Technology Officer and Professor of Computing Studies at Arizona State University and Brad Wheeler, Vice President for IT, CIO, and Professor at Indiana University.
Video for this session is also available.

This session compares and contrasts the community source model with the commercial software model in higher education. Two presenters with expertise on both sides of the issue discuss the relative merits of each model as the basis for implementing the enterprise systems (financial, student information, contract and grant, and teaching and learning) that underlie the essential operations of most higher education institutions.

This hour and seventeen minute podcast features a panel discussion from the EDUCAUSE 2008 Enterprise Conference in Chicago. This lively discussion, "Community Source Software: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?," includes: