Comment Re:two bad choices (Score 2, Interesting) 277
Having endured 3 major releases of Campus Edition of WebCT, this poor sysadmin just about barfed when I saw this news today. Just when were migrating from CE 4 to CE 6, THIS happens.
The old WebCT was cobbled together at UBC on some rainy FRiday afternoons. Their old architecture doesnt scale anymore, an indexed flat-file system causes all kinds of performance problems, backup and restore problems, and more often than not leaves you running out of inodes on your file systems. Campus Edition 6 was rewritten from the ground up as a J2EE application using an Oracle backend. Now we have a 505Mb download instead of 90Mb.
I sure hope whatever happens to BB/WebCT results in a slimmer easier to administer product. Good luck to them both.
The old WebCT was cobbled together at UBC on some rainy FRiday afternoons. Their old architecture doesnt scale anymore, an indexed flat-file system causes all kinds of performance problems, backup and restore problems, and more often than not leaves you running out of inodes on your file systems. Campus Edition 6 was rewritten from the ground up as a J2EE application using an Oracle backend. Now we have a 505Mb download instead of 90Mb.
I sure hope whatever happens to BB/WebCT results in a slimmer easier to administer product. Good luck to them both.
