lms

We as a group are starting to look at hardware and software requirements for the LMS under consideration. This data comes from web sites and documents provided by the company or organization.

Desire2Learn (request documentation)

Application Server: CPU: Xeon 2-way Processor @ 2.8 + GHz Memory: 2-4 GB RAM I/O: 20 GB+, 10k + RPM Hard drive Software Specifications: OS: Windows 2003 32-bit Standard Edition, windows 2000

Database Server:
CPU: Xeon up to 64-way Processors @ 2.8 + GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM (Additional memory dependant on the size of the DB and # of transactions)
Software Specifications:
OS: windows 2003 Standard Edition, windows 2003 Enterprise Edition, SQL server 2000 standard/enterprise/data edition

File Server:
CPU: Xeon 2-way Processors @ 2.8 + GHz
Memory: 1-2 GB RAM
I/O: depends on requirements for storage (~100 GB)

Moodle (view page)

Application Server
Disk space: 160Mb free (min). You will require more free space to store your teaching materials.
Memory: 256Mb (min), 1Gb (recommended).
Software:
Web server software. Most people use Apache, but Moodle should work fine under any web server that supports PHP, such as IIS on Windows platforms.
PHP scripting language (version 4.1.0 or later).
Database server:
MySQL or PostgreSQL are completely supported and recommended for use with any version of Moodle. The minimum version of MySql required for Moodle 1.5 is 3.23. Moodle 1.6 or later requires MySQL 4.1.16 (4.1.12 if you use latin languages only).

Sakai - (view page)

Hardware requirements
Hardware specifications were not listed on site. But implementations are typically at least two servers.
Software requirements -
OS - Linux, Windows 2003, Solaris
Java
MySQL 4.1 or 5.0