In The Chronicle deze week een interessant artikel n.a.v. de Blackboard conferentie in juli. Het artikel is redelijk negatief van toon:

Blackboard has become the Microsoft of higher-education technology, say many campus-technology officials, and they don't mean the comparison as a compliment. To them the company is not only big but also pushy, and many of them love to hate it.

 Interessant is dat vooral kleine instellingen kiezen om naar open-source te gaan, voornamelijk vanwege de kosten.

Het artikel eindigt met:

But many college officials at Blackboard's user conference were eager to find out how to upgrade and said they would probably stick with the company.