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British Columbia's oldest and largest college is preparing for the next school year by creating the same kind of Internet services offered by rival post-secondary institutions.
Students registering at Vancouver Community College this fall will be able to access personal e-mail accounts through an automated process that will create unique identifiers for a number of other future applications. A five-week project completed recently will serve approximately 25,000 students.............
Vancouver Community College is no stranger to open source -- the school runs its Oracle database on Red Hat -- but this was its first introduction to SUSE, Forrest said. "Linux is Linux is Linux," he said. "When you get under the covers, it's really how you package it."
Although e-mail is a first step, Forrest said the school will deliver online access to its library, research materials, class calendars and schedules through the same eDirectory tree. As a part of the registration process, Forrest said the e-mail provisioning should take about five seconds.
Forrest estimated that Vancouver Community College saved $1 million and freed up 15 per cent of the IT staff's time by automating e-mail services through Novell's tools. The cost savings were important, given that the benefits from the project are slightly intangible, he said. ...........................
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