The Sakai Project began in 2004 when Stanford, Michigan, Indiana, MIT and Berkeley began building a common Courseware Management System rather than continuing their homegrown systems or licensing software from a commercial vendor. As of July 2007, Sakai is in production at over 150 institutions and being piloted by over 100 more.

Mainstream offers specialized Sakai hosting for Educational institutions. We provide complete Sakai implementations for School Districts as well as a collaboration site for school districts which allows teachers and administrators to share ideas, course work and other materials.

In 1981 our founder, Craig Peterson was an early developer on the Internet. He helped develop and implement Internet protocols throughout the 1980's and 1990's.

We were approached by some of our clients in 1991 to build Internet sites for them. Back then the sites just provided ftp files that were archived by Archie and Veronica.