Comments on: Breaking News! Brace Yourselves http://ubernoggin.com/archives/361 Intellagirl's Geeky Thoughts and Ponderings Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:25:29 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Geoff Cain http://ubernoggin.com/archives/361/comment-page-1#comment-3798 Geoff Cain Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:21:03 +0000 http://ubernoggin.com/?p=361#comment-3798 Caveat Freakin' Emptor We have Bb and you are right, you are only looking at a demo. What they say and what they deliver are invariably two different things. Also, read your contract. They claim to have redundant storage backing up all of the classes and data. They lost 200 of our classes and according to our contract, that is just tough luck on us. They said one data tape accidentally overwrote the other. We said, "that does not sound like redundant storage" and they really didn't care. Also, we had service tickets on things that were broken with their product that were three years old. They finally started emailing us with messages that said "Due to age, we are closing this ticket. Please re-open if this continues to be a problem." All of those exciting features you are talking about are already available in modern LMSs like Angel - a Bb rep told us that all of the Bb Ng stuff would catch up to that within two years. But really why wait? Why not learn to leverage the free and the open source out there waiting to be put together? Those big corporations make the sweetest kool-aide, don't they? Caveat Freakin’ Emptor
We have Bb and you are right, you are only looking at a demo. What they say and what they deliver are invariably two different things. Also, read your contract. They claim to have redundant storage backing up all of the classes and data. They lost 200 of our classes and according to our contract, that is just tough luck on us. They said one data tape accidentally overwrote the other. We said, “that does not sound like redundant storage” and they really didn’t care. Also, we had service tickets on things that were broken with their product that were three years old. They finally started emailing us with messages that said “Due to age, we are closing this ticket. Please re-open if this continues to be a problem.”

All of those exciting features you are talking about are already available in modern LMSs like Angel – a Bb rep told us that all of the Bb Ng stuff would catch up to that within two years. But really why wait? Why not learn to leverage the free and the open source out there waiting to be put together?

Those big corporations make the sweetest kool-aide, don’t they?

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