Ultimately Japonica was outbid for Borden. But Fahmy was sold on the Net as a transforming business tool. The Internet is an amazing technology, but technology is just an enabler. You still need to provide people with services or products that are as easy to use as a blender or a toaster. Fahmy left Japonica in 1996 and spent two years starting Channels Internet, which helped organizations like the United Way and Volvo move business applications to the Web.
Users can also quickly track whether sent files have been delivered and read.
All of this is designed to make the tool ideal for organizations setting up intranets for project collaborators and other teams. People will use these functions only if they can share them with anyone. And we've spent a lot of time building that functionality on the back end, so people can track the delivery of an attachment no matter how or to which system they send it. Fahmy said that, with the technology solidly in place, the firm, now with 20 employees and growing fast, is speeding up its marketing, particularly to corporate customers who pay monthly subscriber fees based on user numbers. Bungo will also provide the service to Web portals either on a fee or revenue-sharing basis, and it has a deal pending with a media portal with more than 200 sites.