Open source solutions are being widely adopted by many organizations, including edutopia! IBM, Yahoo, Sony are among the major companies that are using open source content management systems.
Some education specific open source systems include DrupalEd, which is a popular CMS that has specially configured for educators. Moodle is another popular CMS aimed at educators.
You can find a ton of information about open source CMS's at http://opensourcecms.com
There are also many hosting providers that provide these CMS systems as part of their hosting package, making deployment of these systems relatively inexpensive.
Open Source solutions - you're using one now!
Submitted by butterfi on June 6, 2007 - 10:04.
Open source solutions are being widely adopted by many organizations, including edutopia! IBM, Yahoo, Sony are among the major companies that are using open source content management systems.
Some education specific open source systems include DrupalEd, which is a popular CMS that has specially configured for educators. Moodle is another popular CMS aimed at educators.
You can find a ton of information about open source CMS's at http://opensourcecms.com
There are also many hosting providers that provide these CMS systems as part of their hosting package, making deployment of these systems relatively inexpensive.