ExchangeDefender 7

About an hour ago I wrapped up my ExchangeDefender preview of everything we’re doing with the “7” release. In a lot ways this is a huge change.

First of all, this is the first release ever to not have a single line of code written by me. I think it’s very fitting because the world that ExchangeDefender was written for and that I designed it around no longer exists – IT solutions providers are building sites and services, not LANs and servers.

Second, it’s a huge change of business for Own Web Now. Namely, it’s no more. We will soon be rebranding and all our solutions from Shockey Monkey to Offsite Backups, will be known under one brand – ExchangeDefender. We are changing our model from a company that provides the building blocks to MSPs into one that delivers the entire service – through MSPs under their brand. The complexities behind these products are getting to be so broad that anyone that doesn’t specialize in messaging will soon be at a major disadvantage: we hope to provide that specialty to our providers while still providing them with the tools if they want to build something custom.

The changes – of ExchangeDefender core and apps – will significantly improve our partners margins, provide more functionality in our products and hopefully make the entire ExchangeDefender chain a lot more profitable. We’re not going at this alone, lot’s of our friends are playing a huge part in it all, and I for one look forward to it.

To everyone that got us to this point – thank you. Being able to deliver this today is the best day I’ve had in this company.