In retrospect, this probably was inevitable. And I'm sure that the very low stock price of Kintera's certainly made a buyout of it by Blackbaud easier. Today, Blackbaud announced the acquisition of Kintera. So, there is now one less nonprofit CRM vendor to choose from, and Blackbaud keeps getting bigger. But will it get better as a result? Hard to know. In Kintera, Blackbaud certainly got it's hands on a platform with pretty good open APIs (Allan Benamer argues they are better than Convio's.) Will they continue in that direction? Blackbaud's other recent acquisition, eTapestry, did open up their APIs recently, although they leave much to be desired. It will be interesting to watch what happens with Kintera, and especially, what happens with their APIs. And how will Convio react? And, of course there is still Salesforce.com, as well as the developing realm of free and open source options, like CiviCRM. It's going to get interesting, for sure. But, in all honesty, if I were part of the teams of any of those options, there would be no shaking of boots because of this merge. Update: Allan Benamer has some more information that's worth reading.