Dave Wilkins , who I admire, has taken up the argument for the LMS in a long post , after a suite of posts (including mine ).  I know Dave ‘gets’ the value of social learning, but also wants folks to recognize the current state of the LMS, where major players have augmented the core LMS functions with social tools, tool repositories, and more. Without doing a point-by-point argument, since Dan Pontefract has eloquently done so , and also I agree with many of the points Dave makes. want, however, to point to a whole perspective shift that characterizes where I come from. I think not.