In 1997, a team at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. began to develop their own online learning software because the available software was not as easy to use, flexible, or scalable as faculty and students at a major university needed. As a result, the team created Prometheus, a scalable software based on proven technologies such as leading databases from Oracle and Microsoft as well as an open-source code application built in ColdFusion.
University of Wisconsin System's dot.edu(SM) Network to Offer Prometheus Course Platforms (Hoover News Alert / PRNewsWire, April 16, 2001)