Month: August 2006

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BB Is A Cash Cow

During the second quarter, Blackboard had a software-license renewal rate of more than 90 percent. It added 136 new licenses but total license growth reflected WebCT customers and climbed 52 percent to 4,802 from 3,149 a year ago. Total contract value was $148 million, or an average of $30,800 per license.

Blackboard sees 32 percent growth – Business – The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper

Of course it is way too early to see ifthere is going to be any significant impact from fall out of Blackboards recently announced patent.  Still, 4,802 licenses is a lot of folks and even if they lose a quarter, they’d still be a head of when they acquired WebCT.  I don’t see how any sort of patent fall out in the community is going to really ding Blackboard.

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Flex 2 Review

There have been lots of changes in the first two years of Adobe’s promising rich Internet platform, and that’s meant choppy waters for developers. But eWEEK Labs finds that Version 2 adds the stability and maturity needed to make Flex a major platform for creating Web apps and services.

Adobe Flex Finds Its Footing

Though the SDK is free and can get you started building stand alone apps, the Eclipse-based Flex Builder is $499 and Flex Data Services, a must for enterprise level apps and database integration, is $20,000 per processor and requires a Java application server.  I think I’ll stick with PHP and some shiney AJAX stuff.

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