Forum .LRN Q&A: Response to Has someone done a comparision of dotLRN with other commercial systems?

Functionality is not enough. Base architecture is also not enough. dotLRN will not get penetration in either higher education or the commercial sector unless it can fit into the enterprise. What do I mean? For example, authentication needs to be delegated so that it can fit into an LDAP, kerberos, PKI type infrastructure. Similarly, dotLRN will have to make it easy to hook into back-end administrative systems such as Registrar to get class lists, etc. I hope that OpenACS community will begin exploring these larger enterprise architecture issues....