Well that’s next years April 1st gag scuppered.
Still, at least it saves me saying ‘well, they’re moreorless the same’.
You know who I’d absolutely *love* to be working for now… any of these basically (bar the obvious two). Seriously though, in the next 10 years this’ll be the key to their undoing (of sorts)… a two horse race is much easier to win, the MS model just doesn’t apply on the net.
Hi James
What d’you mean next year’s April 1st gag scuppered? I’ve had half the locals convinced you were the new James Bond and that’s the REAL reason you’d gone back to the UK, you international man of mystery you…
Back to the gang of two, the press releases seem kind of weird and not overly convincing. It just seems such an uncomfortable combination, and rather like one will simply gobble up the other once the smiling for the photographers is over. While you were away did you happen to see the photo they probably didn’t want released which was of a florida alligator and a python eating out together…
The WebCT CTO will become the VP of Technology and Product Development of the combination. The user community seems enamored of WebCT’s feature set, so that actually bodes well.
When the Open Source community can deliver a solution that is as full-featured, easy-to-use, robust (easy-to-support), and supported (including 3rd-party developers writing to the platform) as either Bb or WebCT, then they’ll deserve the market share they get.
If I were working for one of the “little guys” I’d be updating my resume. More consolidations are coming.
Where will Greg Ritter be, that’s what I wanna know… there’s still hope if he’s hangin in there!
Nice way of saying ‘if the open source community wasn’t the open source community’ btw ;)
To tell you the truth I’m an advocate of OS in some contexts from a philosophical rather than a necessarily practical perspective, if you;re philosophically sound then things tend to flow well from there. But if you;re going to test out OS applications by how much they happen to be like proprietary apps then, well, you;re always going to be right aren’t ya!