You are a VAR and you think about cloud computing services like hosted applications, you must next decide how to go about establishing and maintaining this upcoming line of business. Do you want to become a reseller for an existing service provider or to develop and manage a hosted offering yourself?
An amazing year has zipped by, and boom, it's Christmas, New Years, next year. The whole team and our partners have worked very hard to get an amazing amount of things done. To name a few...
- 1&1 has gone live with the new OX-based Webmail 2.0 for more than 6 million people, Versatel as well with more than 1.3 million accounts, the University Hospital of Cologne has gone live with 5000 users and and and...
Why is it that in-car systems, and mobile phones are really usable by anybody? And that - when it comes to PCs - even Apple falls short of adjusting to their users? Forcing them to click on a mouse when they just want to point?
Cisco has announced WebEx Mail and 3947 or so other new products, but lets focus on Mail. Looking at the price list it seems that Microsoft with it's bold move last week pretty much defined the market:
Webmail Client - includes webmail client, Ironport Security, High Availability, 5G Storage - $3.50/user/month
Standard Client - includes Webmail client, Ironport, High Availability, 5G Storage plus Support for Outlook Client, Support for ActiveSync - $5.00/user/month.
Blackberry support can be added to the Standard client package for an additional $1.00/user/month
InformationWeek and the VARGuy report on the heavy price cuts Microsoft just announced on their hosted "BPOS" offerings. MS Exchange drops from $10 to $5 per user, per month, the whole suite from $15 to $10, space goes up from 5 to 25 GB.
Now what does that mean to channel partners, service providers and all the other players in this market? Trouble.
So why is it special SugarCRM has integrated support for OXMF?
What is different with the integration we did is its simplicity. It works between hosted and on-premises installations. So a SugarCRM on-premises customer can sign up for hosted OX. Or an on-premises OX user can migrate to a hosted offering, and integration with Sugar will just keep on running. And anybody who wants to look at the traffic between his systems can easily do so in a browser.
To meet the "who is who" of our Service Provider and Channel Partners you had to be at the Rhein-Energie football stadium in Cologne on Oct. 8, 2009. The day before 30 had registered for our technical workshop, 55 showed up so we split it into two. At the summit we and our 9 summit partners where very happy with the attendence, in total we had 120 people from all over the world. The venue was exciting, a whole stadium just for us (and yes, in a couple of years we intend to fill it up ;-).