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Re: Education Software Monopolist Loses Clients to Free Software

On Sep 8, 12:39 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Blackboard Customers Consider Alternatives
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> | Blackboard has become the Microsoft of higher-education technology, say many
> | campus-technology officials, and they don't mean the comparison as a
> | compliment. To them the company is not only big but also pushy, and many of
> | them love to hate it.
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> | [...]
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> | LeTourneau's contract with Blackboard ends this year, and campus officials
> | may join the growing number of colleges switching to Moodle, a free,
> | open-source course-management system, or Sakai, another free program. Those
> | systems have grown feature-rich enough to pose serious challenges to
> | Blackboard. Giants like the Georgia Institute of Technology and the
> | University of California at Los Angeles, along with smaller colleges, like
> | Louisiana State University at Shreveport, have made the jump.
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> http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i03/03a00103.htm
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> It's not only evil like Microsoft. It's also /funded/ by Microsoft.

I agree, Blackboard definitely is evil.

Sakai is the name of a subway stop in Nagoya, Japan.  I can't forget
it.  The lady's voice calls out, "Sa-KAI"


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