I'm also sorry to hear of this most recent business shutdown - I would agree with Ben that opportunities are still abundant in eLearning but this continued emphasis on developing custom content for large or Fortune 500 companies suprises me. This will be stressful for affected families, but I hope their professional experiences gained will be reused soon in future!

There are so many more opportunies in social networking, consulting, continuing professional education, research/applied research and innovative post-secondary training and education program development/delivery, the area that I currently work in in Saskatchewan It is too bad that all some funding agencies can get their minds around is this custom-shop mentality, which largely has moved to India and Russia some time ago.

In my opinion, NB still has an edge on developing and delivering some products/services above since many smart people will successfully develop them irrespective of what ACOA or NB Government funders think. And they will be smaller, distributed, flexible teams as Harold has argued for for some time.

Now it's time to lower tax burden (personal income tax and exemptions) in favour of these operators - Harold, is this not the oldest argument going in the Maritimes? Better get off my soap box and back to work here in the West - hope all are well!

David Francis