Following up on a commitment made at the time it acquired the two companies, Blackboard has announced that Collaborate, its new collaborative learning suite that taps into technology from Elluminate and Wimba, will work with competing learning management systems.
Blackboard (WebCT owner), Desire2Learn End Dispute
Blackboard and Desire2Learn have formally ended their three-and-a-half-year legal dispute, a conflict that was triggered when Blackboard received a hotly disputed patent for electronic learning technologies and proceeded to enforce it through litigation against D2L.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/12/15/blackboard-desire2learn-end-dispute.aspx…