Chris,
Since that meeting, we have re-evaluated our strategy/plans for
Enhanced Webmail and made the decision to release it as a standalone
webmail client rather than as an integrated piece of CPX. Both CPX
2.0 and Enhanced Webmail are expected to release at the same time,
but as separate pieces. It's probably worth explaining that decision
to this group.
We have traditionally included a webmail client as part of CPX.
However, two of the most common requests we have gotten have been to
1) not force end users to go through CPX to read/manage their email
and 2) focus CPX on administrative functions rather than "end user"
functions. The heavy CPX users (administrators) generally spend
almost all of their time doing some type of administrative work,
which is significantly different than a shared plan where the
control panel user is both administrator and end user. In the shared
environment, having a webmail client integrated probably makes
sense, but not so much for the VPS/MPS control panel.
We understand it is important to provide a quality webmail client,
but de-coupling it from the control panel seems to be the best
solution.
In addition to this change, we have also undertaken a separate
initiative to modify our QA and rollout process, which has caused a
delay in our delivery date. We are now planning to release both CPX
2.0 and Enhanced Webmail in the 4th quarter (most likely November
timeframe).
A bonus to this delay is that we were actually able to get the "Mail
Administrator" role added to the scope of CPX 2.0, which has been
another popular request.
Thank you for following up and please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Scott Flinders
Sr. Product Manager
Verio Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-cpx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-cpx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chris Hess
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 8:42 AM
To: cpx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cpx] CPX and Enhanced Webmail Update
Hello Scott (Scott Flinders),
We spoke on the last day of the Verio Partner Summit, March 17th
,about a large CPX update that would bring a number of long awaited
features to CPX and bring Enhanced Webmail out of beta. The expected
release date noted was two to three months (June - July). Can you
please update us on when this CPX update and Enhanced Webmail will be
released?
Thank you,
--
Chris Hess
chris@xxxxxxxxxx
Outer Banks Internet, Inc.
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