03.18.07

We just completed re-designing the Wesley College web site

Posted in Delaware.Net, Local Delaware, Web Development at 4:03 pm by john

I’m really proud of the new Wesley College web site, which was just re-designed by Delaware.Net and which will launch this Thursday (March 22, 2007) on the College’s “Founder’s Day”. We’ve also designed a new HTML Flash mass email that will go out to the College’s mailing list. Wesley College is a local university whose web site really needed some help. It consisted of thousands of static web pages that were designed in Microsoft FrontPage. That’s right - FrontPage.

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03.15.07

Cisco to buy WebEx for $3.2B in cash

Posted in Internet Industry, Team-Logic CRM at 3:20 pm by john

Cisco Systems Inc. said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire the online meeting company WebEx Communications Inc. for about $3.2 billion in cash.

This is a really strong indication that Cisco is going to target medium sized businesses for VOIP, while also using their Netgear franchise to bundle collaborative online business meetings, voice, and data with turn-key appliances. Pretty exciting stuff. Since WebEx acquired Intranets.com some time ago, it also is a new area of SAAS for Cisco. This appears to be new territory for Cisco, as they have not provided SAAS products in the past. It will be interesting to see how the products and services mesh together over time. It almost reminds me of how EBay bought Skype, and yet Skype doesn’t appear to be integrated into other Ebay offerings yet. Both acquisitions appear to be strategies for bolstering the not-so-sexy business of VOIP by adding sexy applications on top of VOIP.

03.14.07

Verizon Backbone Problems Affect Internet Traffic Today

Posted in Internet Industry, Web Hosting at 4:28 pm by john

Verizon had some serious network issues today, and it appears that interconnects from Cogent and other backbone providers also suffered today. When the latency was happening, major sections of the graph below were yellow and orange.

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