Red Herring Cover Story on Critical Path.
This month ... June '99 issue. Not online yet.
Here's a February story in the Red Herring that mentions Software.com ...
Critical Path's current competitors -- like USA.net, iName, and Software.com -- mostly provide free Web-based email. Critical Path's offerings include Web-based email, but its business focuses on more conventionally delivered email read by standard clients like Microsoft Exchange and Qualcomm's Eudora.
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And one from March 12th ...
CFOs WEATHER FINANCIAL STORM
If you want a true barometer for future IPOs, take a look at who's appointing chief financial officers. Roy Liu is Toysmart.comas new CFO -- no surprise, given competitor eToys's recent filing of plans to go public. Talk City, a community site, hired Jeff Snetiker, formerly at UPN, to head up its finances. And Software.com , which makes industrial-strength email and messaging software, has hired John Ingalls, a veteran of firewall maker Raptor Systems, as its CFO.
"One thing the company needed was a CFO who had public company experience," says Mr. Ingalls (that would be him, in other words). "They're closer to being ready. And I was looking for a pre-IPO Internet infrastructure company, so I think it's a good fit."
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In the meantime internet IPO's are losing their lustre. |
