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Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in TechBiz at 7:11 am on Wednesday, 19 September 2007
The people behind FireFox have launched a new start up focussed on email.
There are many broken things. Email, the most popular application on the Internet, is the most broken of all. The main vendors control the mail clients and servers - locked into a long release cycle.
I’ve always thought doing email right would be fertile ground.
Also Yahoo buys Zimbra for $350m. There is still big ‘R&D by acquisition’ opportunities here. The prize is too valuable for the big boys to let someone else in.
Who would have thought. Email, still an interesting space.
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The offline features of Zimbra are a possible draw here.
The calendar is also a strong point.
http://www.zimbra.com/products/zimbra_calendar.html
Saw Xobni at TechCrunch40 and they’d have to be on the radar. Very cool features to help fix your email problems. They must have been close to a win. Although you can forget about them for the Mac or Gmail.