Yahoo is unloading Zimbra and with it the whole SMB hosting business. While
the Zimbra part is interesting to us here at Open-Xchange, as it also shows
some technology related weaknesses, the bigger picture may be even more
interesting - especially to Service Providers.
Tier1's Phil Shih get's it right (as usual): "...Yahoo is also set to unload
Zimbra, which Yahoo has had little success leveraging across its small
business customer base, although it continues to grow. T1R does not agree
that Zimbra had (or has) no hope within Yahoo because it is a solely
enterprise-focused product, as some of the media commentary suggests. While
Zimbra could be a bit up-market for the Yahoo Small Business base, there is
no reason why the product could not have been tailored for the smal... (more)
Reuters published an article titled "IBM takes on Google in business Web-mail
market" - bold words but hey, this is Big Blue, right? We haven't seen much
from IBM in the SaaS space yet, so this move was about time. What is
surprising is the positioning of this offering, low function, low price
($36/user/year) but business Web-Mail. This simple Web-Mail offering is not
based on Notes but ... (more)
There has been much ado about Google Wave, for good reason.
I can't wait to play with it.
What is impressive is what you:
can do in an HTML5 app get when you leverage the web knowledge like the
Spelly extension does (a really really useful spell checker/corrector which I
would love to have on my iPhone) can do if you do P2P communications right.
For the past 8 years I've been a great fan, u... (more)
Money is being made with Open Source. Some make spectacular money by
exploiting Open Source (Google, Apple) and some things wouldn't even exist
without it (Internet, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing) - so it really
boils down to finding the right business model.
BusinessWeek has a good one on making money and growing fast in the open
source world, titled "Open Source: An Open Questio... (more)
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller
What does Software as a Service (SaaS) have to do with open source? Not much,
you might think.
SaaS, as you probably know, is a delivery- and business-model for software
that has been proving quite disruptive to the... (more)
Rafael Laguna is Chief Executive Officer of Open-Xchange Inc., of which he was co-founder and chairman of the board until he took over responsibility as CEO in January 2008. In 2001, Laguna initiated the technology partnership between Open-Xchange's development team and SUSE Linux - today a Novell business. The result of this partnership, SUSE Linux Openexchange Server, became the best selling Linux-based groupware solution. Most recently, Laguna was crucial to the extention of Open-Xchange's product portfolio and formed the partnership with the world’s largest web host by known servers, 1&1 Internet AG.
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