just what it says

"The point is that you don’t need to change technologies (or even interaction styles) to solve a problem of information transfer efficiency. Sometimes you just need to rethink the problem. There are many systems for which a different architecture is far more efficient, just as XMPP is far more efficient than HTTP for something like group chat. Large-scale collaborative monitoring is not one of them. An XMPP solution is far more applicable to peer-to-peer monitoring, where there is no central service that is interested in the entire state of a big site like Flickr, but even then we have to keep in mind that the economics of the crowd will dictate scalability, not the protocol used for information transfer."

intriguing. primitize at the moment, but intriguing.

interesting performance results for linux-rt

Clint Patterson, Microsoft PR director: "The open-source development model has yet to demonstrate the ability to support profitable software businesses that can drive the coordinated research and testing necessary to sustain innovation," <sigh>

thoughts from MailCo's new CEO

"I think we have a lot to learn still about how simple the enterprise can eventually be." - yes, precisely

very interesting news. more on this later.

interesting potential competitor to Joyent Connector

"The important part...is that all the web based things fell to me, and I turned to Google Apps. The startup process was amazing, in just two hours we went from zero to having our own domain name, a web site, email, chat, docs, and calendaring."

better piece than mine on patent messaging, marketing and so on

interesting partnership b/twn WordPress.com and Google Apps. i like seeing Google and WordPress be willing and able to partner with a competitor (nominally, at least - does anyone use Blogger anymore?)

"If you google for Twitter and scalability, you'll find a lot of articles on how Twitter's Rails setup has buckled under their obscene growth curve...But I think that fundamentally they're using the wrong technology for what they're trying to accomplish."

excellent win for the folks over at Zimbra

i wonder if i could just turn off *all* mail for a month

Zimbra giving Ubuntu some love

talked to a young cousin this weekend who basically said the same thing: "i haven't checked my email in three weeks"

Berlind's account of switching MassEventsLabs over to Google Apps

Hula fork; hadn't seen this before

the Scalix folks are excited about the recent piece describing market opportunities for messaging players, but also take note of the debate between Ed Brill and Glenn here

we're considering many of the same issues as Dave, and in fact are on the same messaging setup at the moment; if you go first, sir, let us know how it is (and i might have a service you'll be interested in)

"I think the media has gotten to the point where they are talking down to the fans, especially in Boston. Fans don't give a s*** about the stuff that's written in the newspaper. They want the meat" - amen

the results are interesting, particularly coming from this analyst, but Matt's spot on his conclusions of import and probable reaction here; i'd be surprised, though, if Google Apps didn't poach at least some of the users

disclaimer: Scalix is a client of ours, but that said i think they've gotten the tone almost exactly right here - i'm subscribed

easy to read to much into this survey, but interesting nonetheless

"Microsoft is fighting the trend for corporate employees to duck IT policies and auto-forward all their work email to Gmail." - just talked to someone the other day who's doing this

"The quick synopsis is, Novell no longer has anyone working full-time on Hula." - i'd heard this, but was waiting for confirmation; tough to see the project in this state, as it began with a lot of promise

math seems a bit fuzzy here, but good news for Zimbra; i wonder though if Kirkipatrick spoke with Arrington about this, as the latter hammered Zimbra pretty good in the past

Zimbra comes to Ubuntu, at least in a preview release - good news indeed, although i wonder how good the dependency handling is (Zimbra's got a lot of them)

afongen is not the only one looking at Erlang these days; i'm seeing more and more chatter on the topic - which is why Bill's ejabberd call is of particular interest

initial round of Zimbra hosters is here; that's the good news - can't find much info on their websites, alas

fascinating response from Cote to my Workplace piece - agreed

interesting not just for the content, but as a datapoint that shows that Zimbra gets it

Microsoft, at least, appears to get the power of hosted applications; would that i could convince more vendors that that was real, mostly greenfield market

Adobe's Bill McCoy doesn't fully buy my arguments vis a vis the importance of the ODF; he makes some good points, but i think he undersells the value of the "grease"

even more interesting interview with Loiacono: Postgres? Sunbird? fascinating (via Ben)

a GNOME dev's thoughts on Zimbra; interesting

interesting Ask /. thread on capacity planning, etc for email

hadn't seen this; interesting Scalix win (via Computerworld)

open source enterprise integration alternatives

email's down again; it's just a matter of time until i pull the plug and go with Gmail as our official package

speaking of Hula; here's a nice demo of the new functionality

i was thinking Hula for our eventual migration away from Exchange, but it's not looking like we'll see a hosted version anytime soon so maybe Zimbra's an option (via Yared)

Hula design specs in flight

stinging attack on Notes; some truth here, but a.) it discounts WP entirely and b.) ignores some issues that Exchange is likely to have (via Dickerson)

Francis is a big fan of MS Biztalk

another great post from Ryan; this time on AMQ, the "open source?" messaging protocol alternative

Hula makes it to my distro

this is great. now somebody host it for me so i don't have to worry about availability and uptime, and i'm in

this is most definitely interesting

Exchange apparently won't be SQL Server based - Jet's still the back end (via Brill)

interesting open source messaging toolkit, sponsored by DARPA, used by Audioscrobbler

some thoughts on the new Thunderbird release - nice update seemingly, but won't pull me off Evolution (no Exchange connectivity)

one-stop shop for ESB? maybe, not sold yet

gmail and patents

interesting application for emailing large files - not sure what the catch is yet (via Popular)

exchange users don't use it for collaboration; no surprise here, as we don't use it for that. collaboration is taking place elsewhere these days

good piece on Chandler, an open source PIM/document-store/messaging client (via o'kelly)

deciding on messaging services internal or external managed services