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HyperOffice is a privately held American corporation based in Rockville, Maryland, that offers web collaboration, online meeting, web conferencing, online database and email marketing applications to the small and mid-sized business segment. Their flagship product is the HyperOffice Collaboration Suite, which contains integrated tools including business email, mobile mail, document collaboration, intranet/extranet publishing, contact management, calendaring, task management, forums, and other applications. HyperOffice is a paid service, and as of 2009, the company has served around 300,000 customers worldwide. The company was funded during the dot-com bubble of 1998–2000 and subsequently changed its name to WebOS and adopted the primary goal of developing a web-based operating system, taking focus off its collaboration products. In 2002, however, the company re-opened its doors as HyperOffice to concentrate on its collaboration products again. ==History== HyperOffice was founded in 1999 by Drew Morris and Shervin Pishevar. The lead angel investor was Strategic Technology Investors, co-managed by Roy Morris and Steve Zecola, two former telecom executives. It was one of the earliest incarnations of hosted groupware, along with sites such as Jump.com (bought by Microsoft), When.com (bought by AOL), and Hotoffice (which died but was resurrected).〔Labriola, Don. ("WebOS HyperOffice Review" ), ''ZDNet'', 2000-08-23. Archived from ("The original" ) on 2000-10-27.〕〔Mike Elgan ("Exclusive Inside Information" ), ''WinMag'', 1999-04-19. Archived from ("The original" ) on 1999-09-16.〕 It was amongst the early few companies to offer software-as-a-service (SaaS), a popular and emergent approach to application deployment today. Also, its later incarnation, WebOS, had a contribution in the emergence of the rich Internet language known as Ajax. The product was originally launched as a free service and targeted toward individuals and small businesses. It enjoyed modest success and was soon funded by a group of private investors. The companies' vision was to bring the functionality of large enterprise collaboration solutions like Lotus Notes as a low-cost (or free) alternative for smaller companies.〔McCarthy, Ellen. ("HyperOffice Offers Pay-as-You-Go Information Technology" ), ''Washington Post'', 2004-05-17. Retrieved on 2009-05-06.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hyperoffice」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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