The indomitable Philip Greenspun unleashed this little factoid about MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative:
... [A]lthough ocw.mit.edu is a purely static .html site, it is produced with a database-backed content management system.ÃÂ In fact, of the $11 million donated by foundations to support the serviceUm, wow.The more sophisticated portion of ocw.mit.edu is a 100 percent Microsoft show.ÃÂ A student asks the speakers why they chose Microsoft Content Management Server, expecting to hear a story about careful in-house technical evaluation done by people sort of like them.ÃÂ The answer:ÃÂ "We read a Gartner Group report that said the Microsoft system was the simplest to use among the commercial vendors and that open-source toolkits weren't worth considering."
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A PowerPoint slide contained the magic word "Delhi".ÃÂ It turns out that most of the content editing and all of the programming work for OpenCourseware was done in India, either by Sapient, MIT's main contractor for the project, or by a handful of Microsoft India employees who helped set up the Content Management Server.
