Two things:
When you read the article, notice that it talks about all the
email systems, and then says that [the] legacy technology...
Equating legacy to Mainframe.
So, when they decide they need to Trademark their software, their
problem will be that mainframe is already generic... That is,
just like Microsoft, you can spend millions to perfect your
trademark (Windows), but it is still a generic name (paraphrase
of the court's opinion in Microsoft vs. Lindows -- which is why
they [Microsoft] paid to get that name and Lindows changed their
name to Linspire as a result).
Just my observations.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
On 12/07/2015 10:26 AM, Mark Regan wrote:
Mainframe Combines The Best Of Slack And Email
By Sarah Perez (@sarahintampa)
History has shown that you can’t topple email. The legacy technology
invented in the early days of the net is too entrenched to be abandoned.
But newer startups have found a way to at least move some communication
outside of email, such as with team collaboration platforms like Yammer or
Slack.
Another newcomer, called Mainframe, is launching today onstage at
TechCrunch Disrupt London with its own take on email 2.0. The startup is
merging some of the concepts popularized by Slack, like channels, with the
ability to communicate with the world outside your office, which is email’s
biggest advantage.
.....Continued at
http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/07/mainframe-combines-the-best-of-slack-and-email/?ncid=rss
Mark T. Regan
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