St. Paul-based MindTouch…no, wait, it’s headquartered in San Diego….no, wait, most of its people are in Minnesota. Oh, who cares — they have a whiz-band new wiki box 
I’d heard they’d be debuting at DEMOfall week after next. Picked that up at the “MinneDemo” event last week, and I blogged at least a mention of them and Aaron Fulkerson in my recap the next day. Gee, going from “Minne” to the full-on Monty demo at the biggest of all demo venues in the universe — all inside of three weeks! These guys have it goin’ on for a little outfit from Minnesota (or is it San Diego?). Here’s an article from the St. Paul Pioneer Press today that kinda lays it all out — or should I say, lays it on thick? [Example: “the next must-have office machine for small to medium-sized businesses — as common as a fax machine”] I’ll be following up on MindTouch soon, pre or during DEMOfall. Now if we can only get ’em to stop calling their wiki box a “managed office server.” [Can you tell these guys are former Microsofties? Not for the use of the second word, but for the lack of any name cachet. End of editorializing…]
Tags: DEMOfall 2006, wiki box
The MindTouch Managed Office Server (MOS pronounced moss) was MindTouch’s pre-launch appliance. Take a look at MindTouch.com again. The launch appliance went live early this morning. It’s named the MindTouch DekiBox.
As for location, MindTouch has offices in both San Diego and St. Paul, which is where the founders reside. Did you notice MindTouch also has a community at OpenGarden.org? This is where their open source bits can be downloaded, forums and documentation can be found, and the team blogs. One would do well to take note of Dream. It’s the real sleeper play here.
Network World just ran a piece on MindTouch’s new “DekiBox” as part of its pre-event coverage of the DEMOfall conference: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/092506-demo-dekibox.html