Severance previously served as executive director of the Sakai Foundation and was the founding chief architect of the Sakai Project. The company has appointed Charles Severance as chief Sakai strategist to head up its Sakai initiatives. Given Blackboard's decline in LMS market share, I suppose it's the only option they had."īlackboard is also eyeing the Sakai marketplace, although Henderson declined to provide specifics. "They want to make their money by offering generic IT service and software. "Moodle, Sakai, Angel, Blackboard 9.1-it's all the same to them now," he said. , which develops the Canvas LMS, said he views the acquisition as Blackboard's decision to "give up on innovation" and focus on the commoditizing of the LMS. LMS competitors are assessing the move by Blackboard into the open source space. I'm happy to say that Moodlerooms and NetSpot will remain Moodle Partners, and have promised to continue providing Moodle services, participating in the community, and contributing financially to Moodle exactly as they always have." "The decision of Moodlerooms and NetSpot to work under Blackboard may sound very strange at first to anyone in this industry," said Martin Dougiamas, founder of Moodle and managing director of Moodle Pty Ltd., in a statement released today by Blackboard, "but it's my understanding that these three companies have some good plans and synergies.
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Our work will also continue to send a significant portion of revenue directly to Moodle's core team to help support the improvement of a free and open product."Īccording to Blackboard, "Leaders from Moodlerooms, NetSpot and Blackboard signed a Statement of Principles affirming that their work will continue to include regular contributions to the open source community in the form of code contributions, financial support to the Moodle Trust, and support for community gatherings including Moodlemoots." Working with Blackboard means that clients using one or more LMS systems can do so more affordably, with greater investment in interoperability and deeper integration between products. "Our company organizes around the principles of affordability, openness and sustainability. "This partnership is an historic moment for our company, our clients and the open source community," said Pugliese, CEO of the Moodlerooms, also in a prepared statement.
"This direction allows us to provide the choice of an open source alternative with the benefit of a team of leaders from the open source community to guide our sustained contributions and citizenship in that community." "Both Moodlerooms and NetSpot have built strong reputations for high quality service and support, which aligns with our deep focus in these areas and our overall commitment to providing LMS services and hosting globally," said Henderson, CTO and president of academic platforms at Blackboard, in a prepared statement. Both of those companies provide commercial services for institutions that use Moodle, including support, consulting, installation, and hosting services. Teams from both Moodlerooms and NetSpot will make up Blackboard's new open source group. With these additions, the company is also launching its own open source division: Blackboard Education Open Source Services. Blackboard has also brought onboard Sakai Project founding architect Charles Severance. LMS | News Blackboard Buys Out Moodlerooms, NetSpotīlackboard is buying out two major players in the open source services space: Moodlerooms and NetSpot.
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