Mailbag: OfficeMedium for Collaboration

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Mike Stefanello wrote to us earlier this month to talk about OfficeMedium. OfficeMedium is a web-based service that provides intranet and collaboration software for businesses and work groups. In a very competitive market, OfficeMedium appears set to try and win customers over by providing enriched business tools at a low reasonable price. OfficeMedium is pricing their services at a monthly rate of $8 per user plus $1 per Gigabyte used.

OfficeMedium utilizes the open source Drupal CMS. A case study for how Drupal was used to build OfficeMedium can be found at Drupal.org. Below is a copy of Mike's email talking about OfficeMedium.

We offer a brand-new web application that we believe your readers will be interested to hear about.

OfficeMedium: Web-based Intranet and Collaboration Software

OfficeMedium is a recently launched startup that offers on-demand, web-based intranet and collaboration software for businesses and work groups. The private and secure networks offer a wide array of features meant to centralize and streamline important information and data, unlike other applications which seem to focus on single, often over-detailed and confusing, offerings, such as project management, contact relationships, or "enterprise twitters".

Within a sleek, extremely simple and easy-to-use interface, OfficeMedium offers:

  • Task and Event Management
  • Personal and Group Calendars
  • File Sharing, Storage, and Organization
  • Contact and Company Information Management
  • Automated Organization and Archiving
  • Client Integration
  • Social and Communication Features (such as private messaging, status updates, micromessaging, user profiles, shared blogging, poll creation, activity feeds, and more)

Global Collaboration Software Provider eXo Platform Opens US Office and Names New Board of Advisors

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France-based eXo Platform announced this week that it has opened its first U.S. office to serve the North American market. The company provides open source collaboration software that integrates content management, communications, workflow and social applications on a portal platform. This gives it a unique position at the intersection of open source, collaboration and social computing.

Considering that its first customer -- and the impetus behind the formation of the company in the first place -- was the U.S. Department, this move can be considered long overdue. But Founder and CEO Benjamin Mestrallet wanted to do this right.

First, he inked a partnership with open source leader Red Hat. Then he recruited some well known software industry veterans onto a newly formed advisory board. These include:

* Bob Bickel, co-founder of Bluestone Software, former head of Hewlett-Packard Middleware and, most recently, head of strategy at JBoss and board advisor to Hyperic (acquired by SpringSource), JasperSoft and Funambol, among others;

* Edwin Khodabakchian, co-founder of Feedly, and former Oracle vice president of product development and CTO of eCommerce at AOL; and

* Sacha Labourey, most recently co-GM of Red Hat’s JBoss Middleware business and former CTO and European GM of JBoss, Inc.

Mr. Bickel has a long history of working closely with promising young companies and taking them to impressive exits. On why he's working with eXo, he explained: “eXo has the proven technology, talent and market potential that I look for when considering which companies I’d like be involved with at a strategic level.