Readers may have speculated in quite a sensationalistic fashion about the new myLife offering by Unisa. Some believe it will replace myUnisa (the collaborative learning environment powered by Sakai - see http://www.sakaiproject.org). Will it? No, not at all.
One particular news article states: "This marks a move away from the university's Sakai community source platform – myUnisa – which the university runs on a Linux platform."
This statement is certainly misleading to those who have not quite made the distinction between Sakai (the CLE product) and Exchange Labs (a free email service). To the uninitiated it might seem that Unisa would be ditching Sakai.
Perhaps the correct way to interpret the author's words is to appreciate the fact that the myUnisa brand had enforced the association that the community makes between Unisa and Open/Community Source - Sakai. So an adoption of a free service under the myLife brand which happens to use the proprietary-based Exchange Labs as the provider would lead the author to imply that Unisa would no longer adopt FOSS solutions. That could not be any further from the truth.
To the Sakai community: Unisa is still proudly using Sakai and have no plans to replace it.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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