Podio, Citrix, Collab, and UC
Last week, Citrix announced it struck an arrangement to acquire Podio. I thinks this is interesting, and here’s why. The UC space is moving toward “Collaboration” – you can see it in all the vendor literature and websites. The conferencing space is also moving toward Collaboration as a means to convey more than just audio or [...]
Podio Acquired by Citrix
Short and sweet since I’ve been awake for almost 24 hours. News just to hand that Citrix has acquired Podio (much more on them here) for an undisclosed sum. Citrix is promising that nothing will change for this most innovative of companies and I certainly hope that’s true – Podio has been one of my [...]
HP Moves its Public Cloud Into Publicly Available Beta
Since the announcement last week that Citrix would be moving it’s CloudStack product to Apache, some of the move vociferous support for OpenStack has come from HP, a company that is an active member of OpenStack and has a private beta offering built on top of OpenStack out in the wild. Today it becomes obvious [...]
Wig Wam Bam.
So, in perhaps one of the worst kept embargoes of 2012 to date, Citrix finally announces their intent to join the ASF (Apache Software Foundation) and “donate” the Cloudstack code to the open source community. Anyone with the requisite amount of brain cells to challenge algae could have seen this move coming and, despite it [...]
