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If a large internet/tech company could hypothetically buy moodle, who would you rather it was?

  • hypothetical question, but as moodle users which company do you think would have the most positive influence on moodle? apple, amazon? oracle? microsoft? yahoo!? google? facebook?

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    Rather than think of what company could/would/should buy Moodle, why not concentrate on what company might get involved in the development of Moodle and have a positive impact on the future of the LMS and education in general? A dedicated company with an interest in elearning could definitely have an impact on the core development and incrementally change Moodle while maintaining it's independent status. At a recent conference in VA I met someone from Google who was working on their course platform.  It's a really simple engine that helps to manage MOOC like courses, but it's extremely limited in the tool set. Could Google help make Moodle even more pervasive? Perhaps if it was free, but I'm not sure their culture and perspectives regarding UI/UX fit Moodle's community values.  In my opinion, if you want to look at organizations already having a positive and strong influence on Moodle, look at the OU. They have greatly improved many aspects of Moodle and are continuously pushing the envelope for development. Perhaps a huge college/university would be better suited to have a positive impact.  I can think of 1 particularly large institution, University of Phoenix, which could instantly have one of the top 5 largest Moodle sites in the world if they were to adopt it across their online catalog and campuses. What might that look like? It might greatly increase the amount of content available in hubs, it could also create some really interesting plugins and capabilities off the bat (to make the system compatible with all of the legacy features required) and it could encourage a lot of other big tech companies to start paying attention to Moodle in order to be vendors to one of the largest universities in the world.  I'm not advocating or hoping for an acquisition or for U of P to make that jump.  But it would be interesting.

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Well, I suppose it might happen, though I remember Martin Dougiamas stating clearly it was not for sale after all the Blackboard kerfuffle a few years back. I think that a company with a proven commitment to open source is one big criteria. So that strikes off Apple, MS, and Facebook for starters. And a company that wants to invest in and grow its acquisitions has to be another criteria. A lot of the software company acquisitions are just big companies picking up bargains to get access to their user base. They are either not really interested in the software itself, or it doesn't fit especially with their business. Either way the software dies. Some would say that Blackboard is an example of this. But lets face it, if a big company wanted Moodle, it would probably be because they did want access to the user base. So looking at their track record of acquisitions would be a good thing to do. I might be wrong but Oracle has not done too bad with Java and MySQL. Oracle anyone?

Justin Hunt

My personal rating from your list: Microsoft (They always need young adopters to have stable demands in industry) Google (It has Free Google Apps for Education initiatives) Another (They have the same third position)

Arief Rakhman

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