Elliot Noss on Why We Bought Kiko.com
Elliot makes a simple case for why Tucows bought Kiko.com, the web calendar app:
[from Why We Bought Kiko.com :: The Tucows Blog]While there are a lot of little reasons, I'll cover a few of them in a moment, there is really one big reason why we bought Kiko. We needed the functionality, quite desperately, inside of our email platform and it was going to take us a long time to get it. Especially at the level of sophistication Kiko has.
Basically, Tucows realized that to have a sustainable business in email for small business, they would need a serious shared calendar implementation. The Kiko auction came along, they did a back-of-the-envelope, and bid. Simple.
A number of folks made the case at the time of the auction that calendaring really needs to be integrated with email to be successful. I am not certain of that, or that it has to be tightly coupled, like gmail and Google Calendar are. But the integration of Kiko into a production email solution obviously goes along with that trend, even if it doesn't prove that it is an invariant of the software universe.
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