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consolidation continues - BlackBoard + WebCT & more.

The Learning Circuits

This announcement comes on the heels of Saba acquiring Centra. Plus Saba + Centra creates a US$100M revenue company which is not too shabby! 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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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Remember Digital Think, SmartForce, Pensare, NETg, KnowledgeNet, UNext, Docent, One Touch, Centra, InterWise, and their brethren? Venture capitalists funded scores of eLearning companies, most of which disappeared in the dot-com crash a few years later.