Simdesk
Founded | 1999 |
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Founder | Ray C. Davis[1] |
Defunct | May 1, 2008[2] |
Fate | Ceased operations |
Headquarters | |
Website | www.simdesk.com |
Simdesk, fully known as Simdesk Technologies, Inc.,[3] was a Houston-based[4] software as a service provider of on demand messaging and collaboration tools for business. It was founded by Ray C. Davis in 1999.[5] Early in the company's history, it was sold to municipal authorities. The company began to commercially offer Simdesk direct to small businesses in March 2006. There were several Simdesk resellers, including KDDI in Japan.[6]
Discontinuation
On May 1, 2008, Simdesk ceased operations, terminating retail hosted services for SMB and individual customers in the United States and Latin America. It was announced that externally hosted services based on Simdesk's platform license would remain in place. (As of 2009, the URLs have gone dark.) Future direction has not been announced.
References
- ^ "A Sweet Deal In Suite Software". BusinessWeek. July 4, 2004. Archived from the original on May 13, 2008.
- ^ "To Simdesk customers and partners". www.simdesk.com. Archived from the original on 2008-06-14.
- ^ "Simdesk Champions Technology Model for Digital Inclusion at W2i Digital Cities Convention in Los Angeles". Government Technology. August 3, 2010.
- ^ Apicella, Mario (September 29, 2005). "The hurricane that never was". InfoWorld.
- ^ "HP eases migration to Itanium on Superdome". Tech Monitor. May 31, 2005.
- ^ "KDDI For Business: Security Services > Secure Share". KDDI. Archived from the original on May 13, 2008.
External links
- Simdesk homepage
- Cache of the Simdesk homepage
- KDDI Secure Share
- Simdesk at Startup Houston
- Simdesk: No comment
- BlogHouston