The Hindu : Business : Sabeer Bhatia's `next' is a Net sharing editing tool

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Thursday, Apr 14, 2005

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Sabeer Bhatia's `next' is a Net sharing editing tool

Anand Parthasarathy

Allows users to share files across the Internet with peers

COLLABORATION ON THE NET: The co-founder of Hotmail at the launch of Instacoll, an independent software vendor (ISV), in Bangalore on Wednesday. — Photo: G. R. N. Somashekar

BANGALORE: In one of the ironies of the computer age, the Indian who pioneered the concept of free e-mail on the Internet is helping launch another compelling product whose main plus point is that it overcomes many of the drawbacks of existing mailing options.

Sabeer Bhatia, long known as "Mr. Hotmail'' after he launched the Web's first "free for all'' mail service a decade ago (before selling it to Microsoft for $400 million), has assisted a small Bangalore startup to launch what he calls "the killer application for collaboration on the Net.''

"InstaColl'' — short for INSTAnt COLLaboration — takes the widely used Microsoft "Office'' tools such as "Word'', "Excel'' and "Powerpoint'' and adds a layer of collaboration on top.

InstaColl's founder-CEO, Sumanth Raghavendra, and co-founder, Kaushal Cavale, said the product, completely conceived and developed by Indian engineer, had already attracted wide interest worldwide.

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