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Stephen Downes

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Cornerstone acquired Saba in 2020 and EdCast last March. Now it acquires SumTotal for a mere $200 million. I mention this here for the sole purpose of quoting Donald Clark: "The lights are going out in the LMS world, one by one, as the platform market moves on to more dynamic systems and wipes out some of the older tech. These acquisitions are about defenestrating competitors and customer acquisition... Skillsoft, fresh out of bankruptcy (sorry restructuring) just want you to buy buckets of courses - they're part of that old world."

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