Comment by ethbr1
22 days ago
Because school IT doesn't pay salaries to attract top-tier talent (50-125k, depending on position level?).
So you get the typical (a) IT makes bad decisions or (b) admin is so annoyed at IT's slowness that they override them by buying a vendor solution.
And add in that there's a huge amount of centralization of vendors, especially at the platform solution level.
Maybe CS capstone projects should be about delivering useful software to the rest of the university.
Imho, we'd probably get better software developers if capstone was "build a system we'll still be using in 5 years."