Crap, crap crap!

http://www.blackboard.com/Company/Angel.aspx

I have *no* idea why Blackboard thinks this is a good idea. The Angel user community (and we're one) is made up of people who hate Blackboard with a passion. The company is a cancer in the world of higher ed with legendarily bad customer service. It's willing to sue other companies over trivial patents and has bought out and killed superior products multiple times. My guess is that of the ~400 institutions on Angel, less than 10% will make the switch back to BB when they kill Angel. Our faculty love Angel- they *vastly* prefer it to Blackboard, and we have the increased usage statistics to prove it.

By the fall I'll have test instances of Sakai and Moodle up and running and a faculty group looking at them. (My guess is that we'll go Moodle) We are *not* moving back to Blackboard under any circumstance, and we have only a year left on our Angel contract, so I suspect that by summer 2010 we'll be running a new LMS.