[GaryOlson]

Investment company buyouts of entrenched education infrastructure are all about cash. The investment firm will cut any product development budget, raise prices, cut customer service, and eventually drive all the customers away. In the meantime, too many university administrations will waffle over the pain of moving to another platform for about 5 years. See how Oracle is abusing all the Sun education customers it inherited.

[j_baker]

The investment firm will cut any product development budget, raise prices, cut customer service, and eventually drive all the customers away.

You know, I would be shocked if they could do a better job of this than Blackboard already has. It takes a special kind of malice to do that.

[robryan]

Or they could let things play out as is, seems pretty certain though whatever the case it's not the kind of acquisition where they will be looking to massively invest in improving the product.