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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/ story/wallst/33409.html More on the upcoming Blackboard IPO. This article is actually pretty good in that it is written for a more general audience and so the writer offers decent background on the CMS industry as a whole and an interesting perspective on Blackboard as an unlikely leader for a new tech stock IPO revival. [...]

http://www.ipohome.com/ipoplus/press/ usatoday_120403.asp The same day that the article appeared in the Washington Post speculating on the possibility of Blackboard going public because of repeated meetings with investment bankers, the above article was published, concerning the potential re-kindling of tech IPOs. But as if to dampen down the growing rumours, Michael Chasen, Blackboard’s CEO, is featured [...]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ articles/A33240-2003Dec3.html Via Ray Schroeder’s Online Learning Update comes a link to this article speculating on the possibility that Blackboard will go public sometime in the near future. I remember being disappointed before the bubble burst that they hadn’t IPO’d, as they seemed a good candidate at the time. In retrospect they are looking like [...]