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I work on the NIM(Nutrition in Medicine) project which provides online nutritional education to medical students.
We serve up our content to schools in the US(Including UNC) and also overseas. We initially hosted the site on our own server(LAMP based) and then migrated our content to an ISP(Modwest).
LAMP is the great technology leveler. You don’t need a great deal of money in order to produce world class web applications. All you need is a knowlegeble programmer and a properly configured server to created web applications that help people do their jobs more efficiently, reduce paper usage, collapse outdated business processes and increase productivity.
Without LAMP, our Center would not be able to do all of the things we have done regarding web. Every data-driven site that we create has a mysql backend database. Since we ‘roll our own’ we have no need for outside mysql services but it would be helpful for the University to find a way to offer open source alternatives to all departments instead of being a ‘Micrsoft shop’ most of the time.
Mark, can you provide the name of the Center? Thx…
CGIBD – Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease.
At HSRC (Highway Safety Research Center) we also ‘roll our own’ development, and mostly rely on internally hosted mysql for our database needs. On occasion we use the campus oracle servers as well, but we do our best to make use of open-source tools when possible.
I work for the Jordan Institute for Families at the School of Social Work. We have our servers for IIS, MS SQL, and Flash Media Server. We’re also planning on buying another server for Apache and MySQL. We also use an Adobe Connect Pro server (for online meetings and classes) that is set up at the School of Public Health.
If ITS offered virtual dedicated servers (Windows and Linux) I would definitely be interested.