Mindquarry closes it's commercial operations. We did a long fight to avoid that. But we became meanwhile a little company, depending on financial support. Without that we must try going other ways.  Lars will for sure not stop to support the community, as long as the community will exist. I will try to support Mindquarry from my personal blog iqupi's world. 

A final summary:

The Minus Side

Mindquarry has not finished the product as a stable version in the way it was intended.
The hosting engine, designed to run on the Amazon server cloud EC2 / S3 has not been finished and reached just a kind of alpha stadium, mainly from a lack of developer resources. That made it impossible to launch Mindquarry GO in time.
Mainly due to that facts, Mindquarry lost the confidence of its investors what prevented to continue the commercial operations.  

 The Plus Side

Mindquarry has gathered a inspired and motivated team, build up a community, delivered a product within one year, developed a leading hosting engine pilot for the Amazon server cloud and created a known brand with the potential to become a key player in the collaboration marked. Customers from all over the world supported us and were waiting for our professional offers.

So what?

We are proud  of the company and our community. We want to thank all people who have set trust in us and supported us. It was our goal, to make a software for better collaboration, to give you a one hand solution for virtually teams. That task was perhaps to big for one year.

Should we have tried less? I don't think so.  Mindquarry is a virtual team solution, providing the needed resources in a single point of access. That makes the Mindquarry software unique.

But we should have done it step by step with better quality in each step to release reliable software suitable for a customer basis.  We simply did not do it that way because we had planned with more time for developing our operations. 

This is perhaps the end of the Mindquarry company as we know it today. This is not yet the end of the Mindquarry product and it's community.

Posted at 11:00AM Oct 04, 2007 (Permalink) by Stephan Voigt with tags business mindquarry  |  Share This Link

The presentation I've held in the market leader track at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, "How collaboration should look like" (originally under the title "the business of collaboration") is uploaded to slideshare. Today we got selected as a featured presentation and therefore easy accessible upon the start page. Looks like we touched a hot topic. I you are interested have look and vote for us.

Posted at 07:39PM Jun 20, 2007 (Permalink) by Stephan Voigt with tags business collaboration pdf presentation  |  Share This Link

Finally we made it! Since today 15.59 CET the new Mindquarry website is public, along with the download of our first release and the accompanying community tools like development portal and forum. That was a hard work the last months, weeks, days and late night hours. I want to thank to all our employees for their enthusiastic and hard work: Alexander, Alexander, Bastian, Hagen, Lars and Nadia. Good job. :-)

Posted at 04:37PM Feb 28, 2007 (Permalink) by Stephan Voigt with tags business mindquarry  |  Comments[3] Share This Link