Your response to Al is most unkind. Yes, people have been waiting impatiently for this. My understanding is that it has taken time for OpenForce and Sloan to work out contract details. This is not abnormal in the world of software contracts.
Sloan asked to make the announcement themselves, a request which those of us who knew about the pending deal honored. I would hope that no one has a problem with this - it's a standard part of doing business in the real world.
Let me be the first to offer my congratulations to Open Force and a hearty "welcome aboard!" to Sloan. This is exciting news - the first funding for a "vertical application" of the sort we've discussed in other forums.
Sloan/MIT will be running on the OpenACS 4 platform. Not that other platform soon to be released by the previous ACES vendor. This is going to *greatly* increase exposure for the toolkit and will do nothing but enhance the credibility of our efforts at openacs.org.
