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WebTrain Communications is no longer in business (2010). Phone number disconnected. WebTrain Communications provided web conferencing services for educational training, business meetings, presentation webinars and live auctions. WebTrain was a privately held Canadian company, established in 1999. ==History== The WebTrain concept was developed in 1998 for the purpose of reducing training costs for off-site business clients.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WebTrain founder business concept )〕 The idea was expanded to include additional communication services. Six different communication products were released after two years of initial development. Each of the software products provided a specific set of features related to its intended market. There was a call alert monitor, a free PC-PC telephone application, a virtual business meetings application, a webinar presentation application, a virtual conference center application, and a web based virtual classroom application. All products were VoIP based. After releasing the different products in 2001, it was found that clients wanted a single product that provided all of the features offered by each of the separate applications and services. In 2003, WebTrain released version 1 of their Communicator product, merging the feature sets of the separate applications into a single hosted application. Version 2 was released Feb 11, 2003. Version 3 of the Communicator was released August 6, 2006. The v3 French and English version release was a complete rewrite of the existing product, utilizing .NET for the back end meeting services. Web service APIs for back end integration and OEM white labeling were also provided in the v3 release. Version 4 was released on October 12, 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Web Conferencing Features - Version 4 Release )〕 Dr. Doug Hallett is the Chairman of the company. Hallett's more notable achievements include receiving a medal from the United Nations relating to his research and discovery of dioxins in the Great Lakes. He was senior scientific advisor to Environment Canada Ontario region, holds numerous patents of his inventions (PCB destructor, UV Water Disinfector ) and took ELI Eco Logic public as CEO.〔 〕 On November 20, 2000, Raystar Enterprises Ltd. announced their intentions of a reverse takeover transaction.〔 〕 The transaction failed as the Internet tech bubble burst during the transaction period. WebTrain was recognized by PC Magazine in 2002 as a contender to major web conferencing providers. Their product has been compared to 39 other vendors by Wainhouse Platinum Research and mentioned in the 2006 Frost and Sullivan World Web Event Services Markets report.〔World Web Event Services Markets - N100-64, Frost and Sullivan, page 23, 2006〕 WebTrain was present at the BCTIA (British Columbia Technology Industry Association) Technology Impact awards ceremony being nominated as one of the three most successful technology startup companies in British Columbia. 700 technology companies were represented at the awards ceremony. On October 17, 2008 WebTrain announced teleconferencing is now provided with all web conferencing plans at no additional cost. On October 2009 the Board of Directors appointed Mr. Paul Greenwood as the new President and CEO of Webtrain, based upon a proxy war of 52% of the shareholders. The two primaries (Kelvin Campbell - President and Gary Campbell - CTO) were let go. Mr. Trevor Tasker was appointed as Vice President and General Manager. The new Canadian head office was at that time, located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada with head office located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada at the offices of Natural Energy Inc - www.naturalenergyinc.com - See contacts at www.naturalenergyinc.com. On July 2010, the company released a new website which focused on an affiliate marketing approach and rebranded the product as My Blue Train. The meeting software was updated, (color changes) and a new MSI installer was released which was not Windows 7 compliant (the previous version was Windows 7 compliant). On February 7, 2011, the website service was halted, the website was replaced with notice stating "An upgrade is being posted, services would resume shortly" and the VP of operations was let go. On April 3, the website was taken offline. Since the website is offline and the service was web based, the company seems to have shut down (or might be in the process of shutting down). 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「WebTrain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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