For the second consecutive year, the eLearning Guild survey, which measures use of over 100 professionally-developed LMS  products and excludes in-house created sys­tems, shows that Moodle™ is ranked as the #1 LMS product among eLearning Guild members with over 24% of respondents selecting it as their primary LMS.

In the same data source, market share among eLearning Guild members for Blackboard™ was 17.5%. In May 2008, Blackboard and Moodle were neck and neck for the dominant position among eLearning Guild members for their LMS product usage, each with about 20% of the responses. Blackboard recently purchased ANGEL Learning™, a small, privately-held LMS com­pany funded in part by Indiana University, with a devoted following of several hundred clients, 25% of which are corporate customers. Although this purchase will increase Blackboard’s enterprise market share to 21.02%, it is still only a close second to Moodle among Guild members.