What does completely reconfigurable mean?
COmanage is being built using all open source components, communicating via open protocols. It is highly modular, designed so that the components can be replaced (by open or proprietary replacements). Those components can be located almost anywhere in a support chain, from individual and departmental to enterprise, federated and national level locations. The user sees a consistent veneer, while the plumbing underneath can shift over time. The only way the user sees changes is that capacities might increase as the plumbing evolves. For example, group management tools may at first may be applied only to the CO groups one has, but then adds, over time, management of class groups, authorized to have keys to the lab group, and the group of those entitled to access the file store. Integration changes involving the university and its departments, in addition to the CO, are exhibited as new capacities within the group management veneer.
