Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Intel's investment arm Intel Capital has backed all sorts of software and hardware ventures over the years. The latest such venture is SuiteTwo, a conglomeration of Web 2.0 software as a service (SaaS) applications from different developers being marketed under one brand with a single sign-on.
SuiteTwo currently includes four applications
from developers Six Apart, Socialtext, NewsGator and SimpleFeed. The
package will be marketed, administered and supported by a company
called SpikeSource, which plans to add further SaaS applications to the
stable.
While the current packages focus on collaboration tools, such as Wiki
building, blogging, and RSS reading and syndication, future
applications on the drawing boards for SuiteTwo include podcasting,
business networking and mobility services.
Although the SuiteTwo media announcement didn't mention it, a natural
addition to the stable of Web 2.0 applications would also be office
productivity tools which provide a distinct advantage in collaborative
capabilities compared to their desktop bound counterparts.
In addition, the new service will provide a degree of operating system
independence. SuiteTwo will run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server, and Microsoft Windows.
"This was a unique opportunity to actively create an effective software
suite that delivers heightened capabilities to the enterprise
ecosystem," said Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital. "Intel
Capital is the only global venture capital organization of its kind
that can spearhead a project like this by offering an engagement with
Intel business units and international promotion through appropriate
channels.
Distributors will have the option to resell the suite and then Intel
will get a nominal fee for deploying it via the Intel Channel
Marketplace. The price range is from $175 to $200 per user per
year.
David Bass
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