I work for a university on the east coast, we evaluated Blackboard, and eventually chose Sakai as our LMS. Blackboard, even in its latest version was buggy and temperamental, and that was just in the sales demo. We contacted neighboring universities, and found the same basic consensus that we had just from that Sales call, that the product was less then stellar, and combined with the high 6 figure price tag for our needs, far from worth the cost.
Sakai so far, its only been a few months, has been a breeze to work with, and the open source community behind it is one of the most helpful I've ever met.
I hope Blackboard is able to revamp their product, as I am a fan of competition on all sides, and think that they could learn a lot from the educational open source environment, instead of being rather pig-headish about how they run things.
So, I'm not the expert on what happened to mitnick, but what I do know is what I just saw on CNN. Suzie Shaffer, or what ever her name is on Money line, had Mitnick on for a quick interview about what he thought about the yahoo DoS. Mitnick suggested that it might actually be a bad router on the fault of Yahoo's ISP. Which may be a possibility.... but then the interview got nasty. Suzie bitch face, or what ever her name is actually started grilling Mitnick about why he hacked, and why would any one do this... as though he was the one who had attacked yahoo. He tried to defend himself by saying that he would never do something as aggressive and flagrent as a DoS and that he went to jail for basicly software piracy, and that his goal was trophy hunting, not damaging acts against major companies. any way, it was pretty nasty...
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I work for a university on the east coast, we evaluated Blackboard, and eventually chose Sakai as our LMS.
Blackboard, even in its latest version was buggy and temperamental, and that was just in the sales demo. We contacted neighboring universities, and found the same basic consensus that we had just from that Sales call, that the product was less then stellar, and combined with the high 6 figure price tag for our needs, far from worth the cost.
Sakai so far, its only been a few months, has been a breeze to work with, and the open source community behind it is one of the most helpful I've ever met.
I hope Blackboard is able to revamp their product, as I am a fan of competition on all sides, and think that they could learn a lot from the educational open source environment, instead of being rather pig-headish about how they run things.
So, I'm not the expert on what happened to mitnick, but what I do know is what I just saw on CNN. Suzie Shaffer, or what ever her name is on Money line, had Mitnick on for a quick interview about what he thought about the yahoo DoS. Mitnick suggested that it might actually be a bad router on the fault of Yahoo's ISP. Which may be a possibility.... but then the interview got nasty. Suzie bitch face, or what ever her name is actually started grilling Mitnick about why he hacked, and why would any one do this... as though he was the one who had attacked yahoo. He tried to defend himself by saying that he would never do something as aggressive and flagrent as a DoS and that he went to jail for basicly software piracy, and that his goal was trophy hunting, not damaging acts against major companies. any way, it was pretty nasty...