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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Martin_1962 on 11 July 2006, 16:25:54

Title: Little Gmail story
Post by: Martin_1962 on 11 July 2006, 16:25:54

We (work) were a little put out when Google announced this -as we had a product called Gmail, not very god but mainly an advertising device for EDI.

Enter your orders with this then email them to your supplier (who uses our software)

Our main product is called Gtrak and we have a few other items with G prefixed names.

If only we had bought the name at the time we would be laughing!

We called it GMail as it emailed orders to Gtrak

Title: Re: Little Gmail story
Post by: TheBoy on 11 July 2006, 16:30:34

just think how much money you (work) could have made when Google offered you millions for the name ;)

Title: Re: Little Gmail story
Post by: Martin_1962 on 11 July 2006, 16:31:57

I know

We were pretty peed of with it at the time!

Title: Re: Little Gmail story
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 11 July 2006, 17:15:24

Its funny how things like that happen.

Working for Ericsson (formerly Marconi, GPT etc) you get used to it.

Imagine working for a company that gave away patents on the transmission of pictures over telephones because it was not seen as important or abandoned mobile phones because the world wasn't ready. We bought a USA ATM manufacturer (Fore Systems) because Juniper (who were the alterntaive purchase) did IP networks and they were never going to take off.

And to top it all we gave BT a new drop of exchange software with 1471 functionality in it for free.....BT make a million a day thanks to re-gaining lost calls via this.

Title: Re: Little Gmail story
Post by: TheBoy on 11 July 2006, 17:19:11

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And to top it all we gave BT a new drop of exchange software with 1471 functionality in it for free.....BT make a million a day thanks to re-gaining lost calls via this.

Good on yer - they used to pay my wages  ;)