http://lauragekeler.com/2009/10/21/google-and-blackboard-have-synergies-says-motley-fool/ Learning With You Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://lauragekeler.com/2009/10/21/google-and-blackboard-have-synergies-says-motley-fool/#comment-7 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:11:39 +0000 http://lauragekeler.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/google-and-blackboard-have-synergies-says-motley-fool/#comment-7 If scaling is key to Google purchases, then they should not have bought Jaiku. Google ended up trying to rewrite it to make it work with their architecture. As a result, Jaiku was down for a couple months which sent all those users back to Twitter or Friendfeed.

]]> http://lauragekeler.com/2009/10/21/google-and-blackboard-have-synergies-says-motley-fool/#comment-6 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:20:26 +0000 http://lauragekeler.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/google-and-blackboard-have-synergies-says-motley-fool/#comment-6 I can’t see it happening. One of Google’s main challenges that they face with anything they buy or build is that it has to scale to an absurd degree. No LMS on the market today, including Blackboard, is likely to be able to meet their requirements, no matter how many development resources you throw at it. Today’s LMSs were just not architected with Google scale in mind. If Google were to enter the LMS market, they would probably need to build something from scratch.

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