Re:In defense of WebCT (Score 1)

Sakai does have LDAP possibilities, although a single solution has not been adopted by the core sakai tree. There are at least two different LDAP integration (for authentication) solutions developed out there. Vista impressed me at the demo I saw of it. It seemed like WebCT was finally on the verge of creating something based on sanity. And now this. The press release from Blackboard seemed to hint that there would be a few years of "Blackboard/WebCT interoperability" before Blackboard stripped the best (arguable) pieces of WebCT Vista out and slapped them into Blackboard. No real hopes of improvement in my opinion. I refer to Sakai as "The Sleeper". There is growing interest in it; it just needs to be proven, and have better documentation. What? An OSS project with incomplete documentation? I must say that the initial documentation attempts at Sakai are encouraging -- except a re-do of their main site virtually hid all of their great beginnings at documentation. I don't know if they've realized it or not.