Quick update on AfterMail:
AfterMail v3 is almost out the door for global release and we're itching to bring it to market. That is one of the main reasons why I had to hold back on blogging screenshots and the like as I had promised in an earlier post, sorry readers - NDAs are nasty things to mess with, especially as a blogger.
That said we've got some of the key UBPs now up on
the work website that cover things such as an 80% saving in e-mail storage costs, lightning fast Exchange server and Outlook client performance by using stubbing technology developed in house by Mike Upshon, CTO of
AfterMail.
Mike has also been re-factoring the codebase further to bring some mega improvements under the hood such as even more powerful indexing through advanced algorithms to reduce the index size - end result to the business: even faster searching and filtering by
AfterMail to enable email intelligence integration solutions on top of the existing core proposition:
archive, retrieve, analyse.
I can't wait for the likes of KVS, Cryoserver and Zantaz to request a head-to-head - they dare not I tell you because their technology is inferior but I have to wait for that marketing opportunity to emerge otherwise we'll be having to go do it ourselves and right now we're just too busy winning business off them but I should not gloat, the battle is not won yet - and we don't waste our investors' money on hype - we just get the business done.
Since that recent chat the following has been announced today!
Energy futures surge on surprise inventory declines
| 10:35am 04/20/05 |  | | | Crude heads higher after U.S. supply data By Lisa Sanders
DALLAS (MarketWatch) -- Energy futures added to gains Wednesday morning after the Energy Department reported an unexpected drop in U.S. crude and gasoline supplies. Inventories of distillate fuels, including heating oil, were unchanged. May crude rose 1%, or 51 cents, to $52.80 per barrel; June crude gained 1.4%, or 73 cents, to $54.30 per barrel; May gasoline added 0.79 cent to $1.578 per gallon; and May heating oil was up 0.6 cent at $1.499 per gallon.
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It's crucial we all take a view on this and start influencing politicians immediately:
Simpol being one such example.
And to those who skimmed this post without going to the links, the relevance to this community is rather simple - if your whole way of life is de-stabilised there's not much chance of us shooting the breeze over .NET, SOA, Ajax, AOP or whatever when we've got more serious things to worry about, especially those of you who have families or like me are intending to start one.
The first clear effect of this is that the supply chain will be totally disrupted, go figure what that's gonna do to Amazon's cost of book distribution for example, we will all be on e-Books before we know it when the price of delivery goes sky high, and the unemployment fall out from exisitng supply-chain job generation is a natural result of such a scenario.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3497561
A preliminary injunction in a patent infringement suit filed by Alacritech could keep Microsoft's Longhorn from getting out of the gate.
Microsoft plans to ship its next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, in 2006. But Alacritech claims Longhorn includes its intellectual property.
On Wednesday, a district court judge granted the networking and storage software vendor a preliminary injunction that could prevent the world's largest software maker from making, using, offering for sale, selling, importing or inducing others to use its "Chimney" TCP (define) offload architecture.
TCP Chimney, which offloads the TCP protocol stack to a Network Interface Card for better network performance, is slated for use in both Longhorn and in the Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003.
Alacritech sued Microsoft in Federal District Court on August 11, 2004, alleging that Microsoft's existing and future operating systems containing the "Chimney" TCP offload architecture uses Alacritech's SLIC Technology architecture.
The suit is based on two of Alacritech's fundamental patents relating to scalable networking: U.S. Patent No. 6,427,171 and U.S. Patent No. 6,697,868, both entitled "Protocol Processing Stack for use with Intelligent Network Interface Device.
This is just not good enough - I had hoped Microsoft had left the 90s behind :-(
My friend Shannon is doing his best to help raise awareness of the phenomenen of social networks in both society, academia and industry. He's hosting the
MESH forum next month which readers may care to take a look at, also of note - Esther Dyson is speaking too!
Networks form the basis of everything, from how your body works to who you know, from how power is distributed to how the store on the corner is kept stocked. Networks are in the news, from the elections to anti-terrorism, to investigations of financial markets and the Blackout in the US.
Whether you are an academic, a business leader, or a politician, understanding Networks is a requirement for success in the 21st century. Recent research has shown similarities in the shape, structure, and growth of networks across many fields.
MeshForum will bring together experts and leaders from many fields for two days of Connecting Networks. In a single, highly participatory track, panels of experts and select speakers will cover topics from summarizing current academic research to techniques for navigating and activating networks in specific industries.
Exchanging knowledge and different views and perspectives will be the order of the day.
To be held May 2nd and 3rd in Chicago with an opening reception on May 1st.
I was hoping to be there as well but I've got to attend my honeymoon instead ;-)
If you're busy trying to get work done, especially if your work is confidential and under NDA then working on a laptop either at home or on client sites (i.e. not locked down to allow for flexibility) and using the internet heavily for research means you might be suffering from:
If so, then
this link might be a welcome relief for those of you suffering from this ailment. Microsoft Research
also has some useful thoughts on this hackers' art
here.
Ian of bbits has kindly put together a useful primer on TDD (Test-driven development) with ASP.NET