Forum .LRN Q&A: Prometheus

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Posted by Carl Robert Blesius on
I was at an academic conference last week, where I presented dotLRN and our experience with commercial E-Learning software. I took more time than I was given talking about dotLRN, OpenACS, and why open source makes sense for universities. There was strong interest in dotLRN. I also took the opportunity to asked people from different schools what they are running.  One platform that  came up (that I had forgotten about) was: Prometheus. People running it now would be ideal candidates for dotLRN.

Developed at George Washington University the platform used Cold Fusion and Oracle or SQL Server. Way back when I was looking at different systems I found it quite interesting, but people at WU did not respond when I tried to contact them. It had a couple of things going for it: handheld integration, templating, db backend, "community source" (although it would have problems competing with dotLRN). To make a long story short... Blackboard "acquired" the "community source". Blackboard is no longer pushing the platform so I assume there are a lot of people on a dead end street looking for an nice exit.

Prometheus at Blackboard:
http://company.blackboard.com/prometheus/

Old Prometheus Site:
(2001) http://web.archive.org/web/20010926094253/http://prometheus.com/

Going through the pages I found that the following (for anyone looking for potential customers):

http://web.archive.org/web/20010826060705/prometheus.com/partners/academic_partners.html

Also found a collection of quotes (possible contacts):

http://web.archive.org/web/20021119085551/http://prometheus.com/images/quotes/quote1_1.gif

http://web.archive.org/web/20010810022943/prometheus.com/images/quotes/quote1_2.gif

http://web.archive.org/web/20010825034304/prometheus.com/images/quotes/quote1_3.gif

http://web.archive.org/web/20010819230648/prometheus.com/images/quotes/quote2_1.gif

http://web.archive.org/web/20010905233551/prometheus.com/images/quotes/quote2_2.gif

http://web.archive.org/web/20010825035621/prometheus.com/images/quotes/quote3.gif

http://web.archive.org/web/20010819231423/prometheus.com/images/quotes/quote4.gif

etc.

Carl