Need your input to the study about "is Moodle suitable for institutional level implementation"?

Re: Need your input to the study about "is Moodle suitable for institutional level implementation"?

by Howard Miller -
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Doing a 'keyhole' feature comparison of any product against any other product is a dangerous thing.

The *big* thing with Moodle is that is is open-source and you don't have to be bothered with restrictive, expensive licensing and effective tie-in. Once you get on board with the *huge* advantages this gives you any other difficulties start to look insignificant. Example, does your WebCT licence let you enrol users from external schools, or do you have to pay loads extra for that? In Moodle you can do whatever you like. In any case, you can spend that money you would have spent on a WebCT licence to pay a developer to add the functionality you need (and contribute it to the community of course - which is to *your* advantage too by the way).

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Another thing... while you were doing this study, you could have found a cheap server machine, loaded up Moodle and done a trial as small or big as you wished all for very little cost and risk. You would struggle to do that with a commercial package.