Cisco and Email

February 28, 2011 by Dave Michels

A major flaw with the CIsco email model was encouraging the use of Outlook as the client. If you don’t control the client, and only emulate and Exchange server, then the best you can really do is be as good...

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Jamie February 28, 2011

This makes me think of Yahoo's 2004 acquisition of Oddpost (http://cnet.co/f4YwWb). As far as I know, Yahoo never did anything with the Oddpost technology (which I thought was great technology).

Fast forward to 2008; Cisco acquires PostPath for $215M. Now, it looks like Cisco isn't going to do anything with the PostPath technology.

Also, it is interesting that there are so few players in the email space while there are so many players in other spaces (like telephony).

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Jamie March 1, 2011

Did you see that Alt-N Technologies (makers of the MDaemon Messaging Server) is now a subsidiary of Research in Motion? Will MDaemon Messaging Server, BlackBerry Edition be a viable player in the SMB email space?

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