Monthly Archives: October 2008

‘Windows for the cloud’

The BBC have interviewed Ray Ozzie of Microsoft about their new ‘cloud’ service, now if Bill Gates had been sitting there a lot of people would have bought it, somehow Ray doesn’t pull it off. I must admit I lost … Continue reading

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Hosted Lotus Notes!

Good to see that IBM is starting to offer hosted email, Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging. Starting at US$10 per mailbox is great as our hosting ClearEmail MH is US$2.50 and $3.85 at the current exchange rate. They are targeting companies … Continue reading

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The Register: IBM spins up AJAX collaboration project (xmpp)

The Register is reporting that IBM is working on a new platform for web based conferencing, looks like xmpp is in the mix.

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“XMPP server failure”

I suppose this sort of thing is an indicator of a protocols popularity… “The XMPP cluster failed because of high load. The clients are trying to reconnect so the operation continues when the cluster is back. <http://status.weblin.com/2008/10/xmpp-server-failure.html> weblin.status <http://status.weblin.com/>”

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AIM SDK … how wrong can they be.

Having just written an article on XMPP and IM federation, which I must admit is rather focused on my own views, but then that’s better than cutting and pasting from someone else I suppose, I thought I’d do a bit … Continue reading

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New position – XMPP Standards Foundation

Well I’ve made it onto the Board of the XMPP Standards Foundation, see our press release. This is a significant thing for me, having been pushing Jabber/XMPP since about 1999 when Cleartext ‘version one’ was developing an Enterprise IM platform … Continue reading

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Installing Axigen on 64bit Ubuntu (Debian)

I thought I’d post this, even though it’s not the sort of contect I usually post, because it was a bit tricky to get going. A few steps to getting the Axigen (32bit) mail server running.

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Just listed Cleartext on CrunchBase

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Wrong turn for Apple

I’ve been waiting to upgrade my MacBook after moving from a 15″ PowerBook a while back, we’re now heavily invested in Mac’s at home and at the business, and in FireWire storage. It’s already at 2Gb RAM, had a new … Continue reading

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Gartner on THE merger of the month

Well in IT security anyway. It seems that some of the gartner analysts are also concerned about Symantecs MessageLabs acquisition, inferring that email security technologies will stagnate. This is a bit off the mark for two reasons, the first in … Continue reading

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Hosted messaging platforms

At Cleartext we’ve been using the @Mail platform from Calacode, chosen because they are an Australian company (so there’s local support.. cough) and because their platform is in use by lot’s of ISP types, like iiNet. @Mail has been very … Continue reading

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‘MessageLabs Buy a Headache for Symantec?’

It’s good to see that some other people hold similar views to me about the Symantec acquisition of MessageLabs, see the similary titled article on internetnews.com. Also David Ferris of Ferris Research (specialist messaging analyst) says that MessageLabs technology is … Continue reading

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MessageLabs taken out of play by Symantec

News this morning that Symantec has acquired MessageLabs which means one less brand in the competitive security SaaS space and more clients for Cleartext, those not wanting to buy Symantec. So this gives Symantec an interesting

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Jabber on the move.

I’m convinced, but that doesn’t mean I’m right, that if Jabber/XMPP had strong gateways to other networks early on it would have got bigger sooner, here’s why.

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A starter on Phorm

I’ve been asked couple of times recently about Phorm, NebuAd and similar technologies, so here’re some links to get you started. The following two transcripts of some Security Now episodes from Steve Gibson of GRC (Steve coined the phrase ‘spyware’) … Continue reading

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Delphi 2009

CodeGear Delphi 2009 hit our office today, some cool new features in it like MS Office RibbonBar support, as long as you’re not writing an application that competes with Office of course, watch that MS small print! The ‘credit crunch’ … Continue reading

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re:MessageLabs Launches Premium Associate Program

It’s good to see that one of our competitors, Messagelabs, is playing catch up with their channel program; ‘The program adds multi-year commissions to the Standard Associate program providing partners the opportunity to accrue additional revenue by up-selling and renewing … Continue reading

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