Sakai or Moodle (Part1)?

I often look into Moodle vs. Bb or Sakai vs. Bb in terms of Moodle vs. Sakai. So now, how about Moodle vs. Sakai?

I think Moodle does have the fresh look with the non-Blackboardish design, but, interesting enough, while the Course Menu Block to enable Moodle in structured format gets more popular, does that mean "Bb like" is what people want? Personally, I really think Sakai is more WebCT'an than Bb'ish.

A big question is whether Moodle or Sakai can provide the capacity of Bb for the Universities and providing Enterprise level integration with the campus Student Information System and Library System? Also, how about vendor support? Is it easier for current Bb Building Block (J2EE) vendors to support Sakai (J2EE) or Moodle (PHP)? Moreover, how about the Content System and ePortfolio support? Bb has spent a lot of effort on rolling out the Bb Content System and Sakai has built in WebDAV based content system and is in the process of combining the development effort of OSP and Sakai.

more to come ..


-Max