The LMS market has evolved significantly over the last decade or so. And there probably are more than 250 LMS systems in circulation around the world. While the large LMS systems are simply out-of-reach of a majority of businesses, most of the small LMS systems don’t necessarily have all the necessary features your business needs for efficient and effective learning management – be it for internal staff or for your customers. To top it all, varied and complicated pricing models make it nothing short of a herculean task to identify and select the right LMS – one that has the necessary and also forward-looking features, is available as a SaaS and is priced with you in mind.

Just very recently Google announced the release of CloudCourse, calling it both an internal learning platform and also a course scheduling system. Built entirely on Google’s App Engine, it is primarily a scheduling platform which integrates with Google Calendar. From the videos and the pages put up on the link http://code.google.com/p/cloudcourse/, I could only figure out that it is a basic scheduling tool and not quite there to call it a learning platform.