Tack on google apps for domains, problem solved. http://urbansemiotic.com/2006/09/01/google-apps-for-boles-university-review/

I used to work for one of those big ivy’s on sand hill supporting IT. Mostly, there’s a hodgepodge of custom apps and a panoply from filemaker pro (fmp) to oracle rac out there, but it’s very spotty. Some operations are top-notch (like cluster computing), but it doesn’t help if it’s not shared and standardized. Other shared realms, like information security need some immensely serious help.

TopSchool has definitely hit it: every niche needs it’s specialty suite, and often folks don’t have the time/resources to manage a production infrastructure to the level of quality that this entails to run a business-grade app from a home-grown system. The devil is in the details. From an eight-figure mobile FMMS implementation it was discovered: the vendor knows best, and often it’s hard to communicate subtle configuration differences buried deep, such as oracle configurations, that can bring the tier of cards crashing down.

Collectively, I’d say there’s a > $250 m/yr market cap on this easy. Top 100 schools x $2.5 m/yr … which is the size of a medium acad IT shop’s budget. Much more goes wasted on failed / immature IT projects every year, but no one really wants to fess up to that fact or they may not get their budget again next year.

Kudos again.