Small Companies Can Now Connect And Collaborate For Free

June 23 2009 07:04:31 AM Add/Read Comments [7]
I'm excited to announce that Socialtext is now free for up to 50 users.  
Imagine no hardware, no admins, no cost.
Just lots of sharing.

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  1. Sean Cull
    1 | 6/23/2009 7:51:41 AM

    Alan,

    this is really interesting but before people will start building business plans around it there would need to be some certainty about the roadmap for this offer - e.g. will it always be free ? will it always be to the latest version ?

    I wish IBM would do this, maybe they will ook back at your example in several years

    Thanks, Sean

  2. Sean Cull
    2 | 6/23/2009 7:57:43 AM

    actually, looking at the offerings in more detail although there is the free offer with < 50 users the price break if you want more than one wiki is huge because the minimum pricing on the paid for hosting plan appears to be for a minimum of 50 users i.e if an organisation wanted a wiki per project as an example they need to pay for 50 + users - is that correct ?

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  3. Jason Hook
    3 | 6/23/2009 8:45:27 AM

    How would a company migrate data to and from Socialtext?

  4. Tzahi
    4 | 6/23/2009 10:01:21 AM

    Great idea for IBM to give Lotus for free for small business

    I'm with @1

  5. Alan Lepofsky
    5 | 6/23/2009 11:46:28 AM

    @1 - Will it always be free? We'll that is the plan, but I can't predict the future. Will it always be current? Yes, it will be the exact same as the paid version.

    I'll answer other questions later, as I have to get back to the booth at the Enterprise 2.0 show.

  6. Alan Lepofsky
    6 | 6/23/2009 11:28:29 PM

    @1 &@5, well since Lotus is not (this is not their market) you can use us.

    @3 from what, to what?

  7. Kurt B
    7 | 6/24/2009 5:57:44 PM

    Fantasric idea. I know of several small organizations that will be interested in this.