Simdesk
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Simdesk was a Software as a Service
provider of on demand messaging and collaboration tools for business. Early in the company's history it sold to municipal authorities. The company began to commercially offer Simdesk direct to small business in March 2006. There were several Simdesk resellers including http://www.kddi.com/english/business/service_domestic/security/secureshare/index.html KDDI in Japan.
On May 1, 2008 Simdesk ceased operations, including termination of retail hosted services for SMB and individual customers in the US 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.
Software as a Service
Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...
provider of on demand messaging and collaboration tools for business. Early in the company's history it sold to municipal authorities. The company began to commercially offer Simdesk direct to small business in March 2006. There were several Simdesk resellers including http://www.kddi.com/english/business/service_domestic/security/secureshare/index.html KDDI in Japan.
On May 1, 2008 Simdesk ceased operations, including termination of retail hosted services for SMB and individual customers in the US 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.