Blackboard is the ultimate in enterprisey software for academia. You thought design-by-committee was bad, now you can experience design-by-committe when that committee knows the purchase decision will also be made by another committee. As long as all the little boxes get ticked then no-one cares about anything else.

Also, between mergers, acquisitions and plain old bankrupcy I can see this economic downturn being very good for "unkillable" open source alternatives in various markets.