Change is the norm

Since the first edition of this book, much has happened. The Sakai Foundation is in discussion with another open source community working in higher education - Jasig. The planned merger of Sakai and Jasig promises a wealth of opportunity for further community collaboration and product improvement.

A product range is emerging with the creation of Sakai OAE, a socially aware educational platform that complements and expands the capabilities of the Sakai CLE. These two applications will work well together via what is known as hybrid mode. The whole will be better than the sum of parts.

Sakai CLE is a hardened product, forged in the fire of mission critical use. Expect large scale community support for many years and a continued expansion to the feature set. Expect also a continued focus on quality and operational stability.

Change is the norm and so is production stability. Watch this space (http://sakaiproject.org/).