This link is really for my faculty colleagues. North Dakota entered into an agreement with PeopleSoft to provide an online system to integrate all services at all institutions within the state. So student records, the library, alumni programs, grants and contracts, etc. all operate through one huge system. In the middle of this process, PeopleSoft and Oracle became involved in a controvery – not the type of thing you want to see if you have already committed millions of dollars and thousands of person-hours to moving to a system of this magnitude.
This weekend it was announced that Oracle has acquired PeopleSoft. It is hard to know what this means, but it has always been troubling to me when the options available to the public in any domain dwindle to nearly nothing.
