Blackboard and WebCT Planning to Merge
Cyprien Lomas brought me this news. Blackboard and WebCT, providers of educational content management system have announced plans to merge today. Both software companies are well known in the global high education industry.
I have always thought that companies like WebCT and Blackboard are being "sandwiched" in today's market. Refer to my January's article: e-Learning: round up for 04, forecast for 05 [Part 2]
Both WebCT and Blackboard are medium sized e-Learning platform providers, above them, you have Enterprise software giants like Oracle/Peoplesoft, Microsoft, SAP are rapidly moving into this market. Underneath them, you have hundreds and thousands of new companies with cheaper products and fully integrated with all the new technologies like Wikis and Blogs. China alone, there are over 1000 new education technology companies have been established in 2005 alone. On top of all these competitions, you still have some great open source initiatives like Moodle and SAKAI…
Therefore, merging is a great way out for both companies and I sincerely hope their plan works out.
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