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Blackboard Buys 2 Leading Supporters of Open-Source Competitor Moodle

“For years, colleges looking for course-management software considered a choice between Blackboard’s dominant commercial product or an open-source alternative such as Moodle or Sakai.

Now Blackboard essentially owns the open-source alternatives as well. On Monday, Blackboard officials announced that the company has purchased two leading supporters of Moodle, Moodlerooms and NetSpot. Both deals are complete, though officials would not disclose the sale prices. The company also hired one of the founders of the Sakai project to lead its efforts to support colleges using that open-source software. The moves are part of the company’s newly announced Blackboard Education Open Source Services group.”

Más en Blackboard adquiere Moodlerooms y NetSpot, anuncia colaboración con Sakai y crea una división de servicios open source

Blackboard anunció ayer tres iniciativas relacionadas con el software libre:

1. La creación de una división de servicios open source (Education Open Source Services).
2. La adquisición de Moodlerooms y NetSpot, dos de los principales partners oficiales de Moodle que proporcionan servicios de alojamiento y consultoría sobre esta plataforma. Ambas compañías seguirán operando independientemente, aunque integradas en la división de servicios open source de Blackboard.
3. La incorporación de Charles Severance, de la Sakai Foundation, a la división de servicios open source de Blackboard.

(Source: chronicle.com)

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