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It's a company that pretty much owns the education market, despite their products being nearly universally considered to be harmful^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hhorrible. For more information, see wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc Edit: I should point out that my knowledge of blackboard is near non-existant, I haven't had to use it in any of my schooling (university in central florida, public education in silico…
Blackboard doesn't own the market. There are tons of campuses that are using alternatives, and more than a few that are migrating off of Blackboard onto other alternatives.
They don't own the market, but they hold a good deal of patents in the field, and are very aggressive when it comes to using them against competitors.