On Message with Ben Gross

A bit like trying to read tea leaves, but ‘Yours Truly,’ the E-Variations suggests that “The sign-off of an e-mail message can be a land mine involving the subtleties of relationships and hierarchies.”

The EU reports that more than half e-mails are spam:

AP - Unsolicited e-mails continue to plague Europeans and account for between 50 and 80 percent of all messages sent to mail inboxes, the European Commission said Monday.

Osterman Research and three leading vendors will hold an interactive, one-hour webinar on messaging archiving on on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 at 1pm ET. Michael Osterman, President of Osterman Research, will share some of the key insights and findings from his recently published research report, Messaging Archiving Trends, 2006-2009. Executives from Infocrossing, Patron Systems, and [...]

Brice Dunwoodie
Brice Dunwoodie points to a review of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, which is finally out this month. The dependence on Internet Explorer is gone, but there may be new dependencies on Office 2007.

Last week’s announcement of the new relationship between Microsoft and Novell took a lot of people by surprise. The promise of better interoperability between Windows and SUSE Linux, and between Microsoft Office and Open Office via Office Open XML, could increase Linux adoption in corporate environments.
Microsoft’s new willingness to back away from patent claims against [...]

Frost & Sullivan predicts the web collaboration and conferencing market will grow to $2.6 billion in 2010, up from $682.7 million in 2005. F&S notes “SMBs represent a particularly attractive target group since they need to access and harness the power of collaboration services but are unable to invest substantial amounts in complex technology or [...]