Cisco Kills Hosted E-Mail Service 13 Months After Launch

[elgato]

Cisco Systems pulled the plug on Cisco Mail, the hosted e-mail service it launched a mere 13 months ago.

While Cisco Mail was “well received,” Cisco found that customers were not interested in hosted e-mail as much as they cared about “social software and video,” Cisco said in a Feb. 22 blog post announcing the decision. Cisco declined to provide any further details.

“We’ve since learned that customers have come to view e-mail as a mature and commoditized tool versus a long-term differentiated element of their collaboration strategy,” wrote Debra Chrapaty on the blog.

Cisco originally launched Cisco Mail in November 2009 because customers said they were interested in “divesting responsibility” for managing e-mail in the same way they switched to using WebEx for Web conferencing, according to Chrapaty. The service was rolled out via controlled release.

As more customers got used to the concept of cloud computing and saw the benefits, there was demand for additional cloud services, according to Cisco.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Cisco-Kills-Hosted-EMail-Service-13-Months-After-Launch-319892/

[kevin55brien]

Very nice work!

Cisco provide lots of things are very beneficial also.
Good that they provide such a good quality product.

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