microsites

Organizations no longer manage one or two websites. Every department has multiple sites, however this proliferation of microsites raises challenges. 

Drupal Gardens offers a scalable Drupal-as-a-Service platform tailored to the needs of enterprise customers who need to deploy and manage their library of microsites while complimenting their primary web properties. Join Acquia for this one-hour webinar where attendees will learn:

First of all, kudos to the IQSS Team at Harvard for such an amazing Product!
My concern: I read somewhere on the internets (don't remember where) that an install profile for university departments is in the making and that it will probably be released in autumn 2010. Is any of this correct?

I ask, because I'm evaluating OpenScholar for the website of a university affiliated research institute. The current install profiles don't seem to lend themselves well to such an endeavour because of all the vsite stuff that comes along with it.

Hello friends!
I hear at the acquia webinar that OpenScholar planing to integrate some university functional.
I discussed few projects for universities and large medical centers and I think that such sites need microsites with own spaces and features for faculties or departments.
I decided to built this system. I think this system could be very expected, because it meets requirments of large communities. Imagine community of some association with main site and many microsites of organizations who make this community.