Zippy To Offer Collaboration To Go

Zippy is a brand new integrated messaging service that offers a complete set of messaging tools – email, chat, and instant messaging as well as Global Calendar, Contact Management, Mobile Messaging, File Sharing, Bookmark Sharing, Automated File and Data Backup, all accessed via the Zippy Windows client.

Zippy is purposely built for the web, an example of next or “net” generation software, and will be offered as both an on-line hosted service (Zippy Network) and an off-line software package (Zippy) for installation within a corporate firewall.  The server provides the back-end integration and management.  Zippy enhances the usual messaging offerings by offering to track work by relationships (that is, by individuals or groups).  Zippy can also provide for guest users, supported by a Guest Services component.

The software is currently in its pilot stage, with the hosted service being provided at $30 per user per month.  It is expected to be generally available sometime in 2003.

More information about Zippy may be found at www.zippycom.com

We expect that there will be a number of email, collaboration and combined services offered by SPs in 2003, many of them from these net generation software offerings, because they’re more scalable and cheaper (generally speaking) than software crafted for the client-server generation.  

 

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