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We're all crazy for email

Check this out. AOL has a new email survey that tells us a lot about our email habits. Results are sorted by major city. The survey asked Do you check your email in the middle of the night? How about when you’re driving? If you said yes then you’re definitely not alone according to the fourth annual Email Addiction Survey from AOL Mail. Among the findings:

  • 62% of people check work email on the weekends
  • 19% choose vacation spots with access to email
  • 59% check email from the bathroom (up from 53% last year)

See how email users in 20 cities fared in this survey, or check out national results by clicking on “Full Survey Findings.” For a quick glimpse, take a look at the Most Addicted Email Cities below.
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Posted by Greg Arnette on August 11th, 2008

GroupWise is 20 years old today

My friend Richard Bliss reminded me GroupWise is 20 years old today – launched 8/8/88.

Although not originally knows as GroupWise, the product WordPerfect Corporation launched as PerfectLibrary and renamed WordPerfect Office 2.0 on August 8 1988 was a revolutionary piece of software for the time. An integrated email, calendar, task system with server components that could run on the popular operating systems of the day: DOS, 3COM, Banyan, Netware, etc. My first experience with Office was an installation at Greater Boston Legal Services. The legal professionals there quickly became big fans of electronic mail.

WordPerfect reinvented the product a few years later as WordPerfect Office 4.0. More features were integrated, gateways for SMTP and dial-up were added, and a truly modern complete collaboration system debuted. It was no small feat to create a multi-platform email system when DOS, OS/2, Windows, Netware, Vines, and other operating systems were all being used in many different configurations. WordPerfect Office quickly became the standard platform for most law firms, and it was an amazing experience to see the effect simple electronic communication had on the work force. Fax, FedEx, Telex and paper memo usage gradually dropped, and email became a trusted communication tool. Today email is a given and used world-wide for all contacts.

Novell inherited WordPerfect Office and renamed it to GroupWise and has continuously been innovating the platform with the latest release “Bonsai” v8 due to launch soon.

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Posted by Greg Arnette on August 8th, 2008

Ouch: Cable Company Mistakenly Empties E-Mail Accounts

This is somewhat off topic, but relevant in a greater sense to email and SaaS issues, in that this mistake highlights the importance of maintaining a backup of hosted applications to ensure there is no chance of data loss.

ST. LOUIS — Charter Communications officials believe a software error during routine maintenance caused the company to delete the contents of 14,000 customer e-mail accounts.

There is no way to retrieve the messages, photos and other attachments that were erased from inboxes and archive folders across the country on Monday.

Sonian, a hosted archiving innovator, uses an architecture that can store your information, encrypted, in multiple redundant data centers. This is truly the best way to ensure nothing is ever lost. This is the best way to manage a long-term durable archive.

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Posted by Greg Arnette on January 25th, 2008