Bloomba
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Bloomba is an email client publicly announced February 2003 at IDG
's DEMO show
. It was released in October 2003. Bloomba's developer, Stata Laboratories, Inc. (also the producers of the SAProxy anti spam filter) was purchased by Yahoo in October 2004
,
at which time sales of Bloomba were suspended.
In May 2005, Bloomba was licensed to Corel Corporation and re-released as WordPerfect
Mail, a component of the WordPerfect Office family. WordPerfect Office is currently the most widely used alternative to Microsoft Office.
Bloomba's primary focus is fast searching of email. According to PC Magazine
, it is up to eight times faster than Outlook in searching email. It also earned PC Magazine's highest marks along with Eudora and Outlook
.
One of the interesting features is its risk free installation. That is, it states that it can be installed beside an installation of Outlook or Eudora without interfering with the operation of the other email client.
Aside from the fast search, Bloomba appears to be comparable to Outlook or Eudora in its features and functionality.
Bloomba was co-developed by Chennai-based iSoftTech, a software outsourcing firm engaged by Stata Labs.
IDG
International Data Group is a technology media, research, event management, and venture capital organization.IDG evolved from International Data Corporation which was formed in 1964 in Newtonville, Massachusetts, by Patrick Joseph McGovern and a friend, Fred Kirch...
's DEMO show
. It was released in October 2003. Bloomba's developer, Stata Laboratories, Inc. (also the producers of the SAProxy anti spam filter) was purchased by Yahoo in October 2004
,
at which time sales of Bloomba were suspended.
In May 2005, Bloomba was licensed to Corel Corporation and re-released as WordPerfect
WordPerfect
WordPerfect is a word processing application, now owned by Corel.Bruce Bastian, a Brigham Young University graduate student, and BYU computer science professor Dr. Alan Ashton joined forces to design a word processing system for the city of Orem's Data General Corp. minicomputer system in 1979...
Mail, a component of the WordPerfect Office family. WordPerfect Office is currently the most widely used alternative to Microsoft Office.
Bloomba's primary focus is fast searching of email. According to PC Magazine
PC Magazine
PC Magazine is a computer magazine published by Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009...
, it is up to eight times faster than Outlook in searching email. It also earned PC Magazine's highest marks along with Eudora and Outlook
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...
.
One of the interesting features is its risk free installation. That is, it states that it can be installed beside an installation of Outlook or Eudora without interfering with the operation of the other email client.
Aside from the fast search, Bloomba appears to be comparable to Outlook or Eudora in its features and functionality.
Bloomba was co-developed by Chennai-based iSoftTech, a software outsourcing firm engaged by Stata Labs.