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March 02, 2007
Hasso Plattner Backs Open Source Challenge To Microsoft's Sharepoint
The founding troika of Potsdam-based Mindquarry, a startup offering an Open Source alternative to Microsoft's Sharepoint Server and Lotus Connections, has taken on seed funding from Hasso Plattner Ventures and brought in Stephan Voigt who co-founded the 16 year old software company Scopeland.
CEO Voigt Posted This Pic, Taken On His Way To Work The Other Day-- As We Say Europe Has Stylish Startup Scenery
Mindquarry is a searchable Wiki application, with some nice team management and project building features. It's especially good for teams that have to share a lot of docs and files and who doesn't these days.
The software is being distributed as a free download, which makes a lot of sense to us because we think that companies may then run it on their Intranets. We learned through a recent gig that a heck of a lot of businesses and global organizations do not enable open access to the Internet for staff -- making all those newfangled web-based applications effectively off limits to the enterprise market.
The software is being released under "Mozilla Public Licence" and the founding team is hoping to attract a developer community.
Commercial customers will get a cost-saving service subscription, the "Mindquarry Enterprise Server". A further important milestone is the product as a hosted service. That allows small customers to use the Mindquarry features within a browser on their laptop, without having the need of an own server and IT-infrastructure. Users can simply access their files, knowledge and tasks from any point with Internet access.
Read - Mindquarry's CEO blog
Read - Co-founder and COO Lars Trieloff's blog
View Mindquarry
Posted on March 2, 2007 05:26 AM | Posted to News And Updates | Open Source Software | Permalink
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