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Blackboard buys Elluminate and Wimba

July 8th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

Now that Elluminate and Wimba are owned by the evil empire I wonder if all the Moodle disciples will stop using them? It’s going to be real funny watching the all those BB haters using Elluminate at their next Moodle developers meeting…and it will be even funnier when Moodle finally realizes it can’t keep up and BB owns them within the next couple of years ;-)

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In a fact sheet about the purchases, Blackboard officials promised to continue to support both products, including their compatibility with rival course-management systems and open-source systems. “We’ll honor all existing contracts for Elluminate and Wimba clients,” the company adds in the fact sheet.

Employees from the two companies will be part of a new division of Blackboard called Blackboard Collaborate, which will be led by Elluminate’s current president, Maurice Heiblum. READ MORE HERE…..

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  1. Bob
    July 8th, 2010 at 10:01 | #1
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    Ha. I’m sure that will hurt their pride a bit. Imagine that. Moodle die-hards using a Blackboard product for their online meetings. I just wonder how long it will be before Blackboard owns Moodle? That’s really going to hurt all those “volunteers” if that happens. Imagine waking up one day to realize you have been volunteering your time on a Blackboard project :-)

  2. figaro
    July 8th, 2010 at 10:18 | #2
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    @Bob

    Imagine waking up one day to realize you have been volunteering your time on a Blackboard project

    True, but I don’t see much difference in that and what the blind followers are currently doing…which is nothing more than volunteering their time to line the pockets of incompetent jerks like Moodle partner Bryan Williams. I can’t remember the exact phrase, but there is an old saying about getting fools to work for free…

    Of course, I don’t think even Blackboard would want to align themselves with a product plagued with problems like this:

    http://educhalk.org/blog/a-critical-moodle-lms-security-vulnerability-all-versions/

    Last I heard, BB sales people were using that information very effectively ;-)

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