The Story Of Good
from the still-possible-to-do-a-silicon-valley-startup dept
USA Today has an article all about what happened at Good Technologies, one of the popular Silicon Valley startups around these days. It's definitely an "insiders'" startup, made up of a bunch of people who worked on various high profile startups in the past. I always thought it was an interesting company because they had released a product a while back, which failed miserably, and then went back into stealth mode to develop something new. Of course, it helped that they had many millions of dollars from two of the bigger named VC firms out there. Anyway, they finally released their product, which doesn't seem all that revolutionary to me. It's a system to deliver Microsoft Outlook to handheld devices. Yet another competitor to the Blackberry system. Of course, I'm not sure why the Blackberry isn't already good enough for most people, since it works with Outlook.
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The Good device may be cool, and useful, but not significantly more so than the RIM from what I can see.
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Interesting.
-- Brian
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