It’s basically funded by institutions in and around that department of the university. So lots of Austrian grands and stuff so people could create this system. I checked it because it happens to be I am doing research on this type of software for a client, so I was curious if there was an open source version of the software (there didn’t seem to be) and to just see what it was about.
Since there isn’t an open source version, I didn’t dive deeper into the slowness of it or it’s architecture.