Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: Interesting Information Originating from a Study Funded by the European Web-edu Project

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Posted by Venkatesh Goteti on 11/21/03 10:35 AM

I realised that it was amongst the 113 institutions, but felt the conclusion that American / commercial products were not making much inroads, (hence, maybe nothing to worry) would just create a false notion that Europe is an open field to walk across and promote OpenACS. Maybe my assumption is flawed but, BB seems to be turning into a MasterBrand. Do we have a vague listing of people from different universities in Europe who are on OpenACS.org, who could be approached to help present OpenACS/.LRN in their institutions. Especially, people who come from universties using BB, and capable of knocking on the right doors...

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Posted by Alfred Essa on 11/23/03 10:33 PM

Venkatesh. You are quite correct. Blackboard and WebCT together probably have 90%+ of the U.S. market, expect to capture similar market share in UK/Europe over the next 12 months, and are aggressively targeting the Eastern markets, particularly China and India. Both companies are gaining strength and have very capable, experienced managers.

We are actively developing a marketing strategy, but will not begin to roll it out until .LRN v2 is released. .LRN still has many rough edges and we can't take on these commercial products head on until some of these are addressed in releases 2.0 and 2.1.