Shared Spaces Briefing, Jun 28
More news from Shared Spaces. I think the Ipswitch IM Switch program is an early indicator of business IM companies taking advantage of the Yahoo/AOL departure from the market.
Today's highlights: NextPage Project Chrome; NSW Roads and Traffic Authority Goes with Sun; Ipswitch IM Switch; Booz Allen Hamilton embraces Microsoft for IT collaboration;
- NextPage's Project Chrome is a document-management system “for the masses”, which uses metadata embedded within documents to keep track of versions and changes, all without a centralized document store. “Chrome supports documents stored as e-mail attachments in Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes, on users' hard drives and across network servers.” Includes a desktop clients for users and a service that tracks document versions and history. Supports documents stored as email attachments in Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes, on hard drives, and on network drives. Available 4Q2004. eWeek
- New customer for Sun's Java Enterprise System for messaging and calendaring: NSW Roads and Traffic Authority. It's migrating 1500 users at 120 offices away from Microsoft Exchange. A portal server, directory server, and identity management server will also be deployed. linuxworld.com.au
- Ipswitch announced the IM Switch program, a special pricing deal for small and medium-sized enterprises for the acquisition of Ipswitch's IM server. Ipswtich timed the introduction of the program to coincide with AOL and Yahoo's exit from the business IM market. Available through July 31, 2004. Ipswitch
- Booz Allen Hamilton is transitioning away from a Unix-centric IT and collaboration infrastructure to a Windows-based one. “The infrastructure will consist of Microsoft Exchange and related technologies to support E-mail, shared calendars, project management, instant messaging, and other applications. Subsequent phases will incorporate portal, search, document-sharing, E-learning, and records-management functions.” informationweek.com
