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consolidation continues - BlackBoard + WebCT & more.

The Learning Circuits

And of course back in August we had WebEx buying Intranets.com and SumTotal (created out of Docent + Click2Learn) buying PathLore as I discussed in this post. The Resulting Big Five: (forecasted annual revenue) SkillSoft $200M+ NETg $150M-200M? It also doesn't bode well for WebCT's willingness to play with open source (sorry Harold!)

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Merger mania in and around eLearning

The Learning Circuits

First, on Monday, WebEx buys intranets.com for $45M in cash ( details ) then today SumTotal buys Pathlore for $29M in cash ( details ) and $19M in stock. And then I hear that back on July 27 Premiere Global Services announced that it was buying Netspoke for $23.2M in cash ( details ). A LMS company buys another LMS company.