Simdesk, fully known as Simdesk Technologies, Inc., formerly Internet Access Technologies, was a

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provider of on demand

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and collaboration tools for business. It was founded by Ray C. Davis in 1999. Early in the company's history, it was sold to municipal authorities. The company began to commercially offer Simdesk direct to small businesses in March 2006. There were several Simdesk

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s, including

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in Japan.

Discontinuation

On May 1, 2008, Simdesk ceased operations, terminating

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hosted services for SMB and individual customers in the

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and

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. It was announced that externally hosted services based on Simdesk's

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license would remain in place. (As of 2009, the

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s have gone dark.) Its future direction has not been announced.

References

External links

Simdesk homepage

Cache of the Simdesk homepage

Simdesk at Startup Houston

BlogHouston
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Discontinuation

References

Further reading

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