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  • From: burnett AT pobox.com
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] what technology would you use to organize a school?
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:12:33 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Childers.Paula AT epamail.epa.gov wrote:

eeeeee! For a small, funds-limited new school with no paid technical
people, I would steer well clear of Blackboard. Proprietary software
that I hear is expensive, not well-documented, and not very
Internetwork-ian: check out their patent issues at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc . I went looking to learn
Blackboard once, and discovered the only way to do so is to pay
exorbitant sums for training classes. I don't think this is what Michael
is looking for at all.

+1. Blackboard is annoying, difficult, poorly-documented, hard to configure, and fiendishly expensive.




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