“Bryant University in Rhode Island was ranked the the ‘second
most connected campus in America’ by the Princeton Review in
October 2004. The school offers a wide variety of Web services,
including online registration and course materials, a digital asset
library, and a large interconnected campus, and they’re all powered
by Linux.“Today’s common platform is a far cry from the situation a few
years ago. ‘We had a lot of everything and not much of anything,’
says Art Gloster, Bryant’s vice president of information services.
‘We had a mixture of multiple processors, vendors, and operating
systems…'”
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