dim-dim dead, or living through salesforce

[greg-SfI3QVg0eaJl57MIdRCFDg at public.gmane.org (Greg Rundlett (freephile))]

Hi Doug,

Here is a Google cache page about the management team.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EmjDGOYJmGIJ:www.dimdim.com/aboutus/dimdim_managementteam.html+aboutus+dimdim+management+team&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

There is better info available on the wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimdim

It was a venture-capital backed start-up all along.  I'm surprised it took
them this long to sell.  I don't truly know the dynamics of the industry,
but I know that the products offered by the big "incumbents" seemed lousy.
 The "hot" new entrant seemed really promising except for the fact that they
named the company DumDum - oh, excuse me, it's DimDim - much better ;-)
 Anyway, I can see that it makes sense for Salesforce to aquire them.  What
makes me sad is that it means that opensource is losing ground to closed
source products because companies continue to buy out the open source
products.

Time to start learning about the Big Blue Button
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigBlueButton


Greg Rundlett




On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Doug <sweetser-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Reading through old posts about online meetings, decided to give
> dim-dim a try.  Before I could set up my first meeting, I got this
> email:
>
> Dimdim has been acquired by salesforce.com. Your free Dimdim account
> will remain active until March 15, 2011. After that date, you will no
> longer be able to access your free Dimdim account.
>
> I think dimdim is local, but the outsourced their product managers to
> India.  Got a call the next day, quite irritating.  Hope they got well
> paid in the sale to salesforce.
>
> Doug
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