Comments on: Entopia: A Look Back in Time

By: Stephen E. Arnold

Stephen E. Arnold — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:01:14 +0000

Igor,

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Stephen E Arnold, July 17, 2010

By: Igor

Igor — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:26:33 +0000

Hey there,

I was VP Engineering of Entopia back in 2001-2002. I agree that Entopia was well ahead of time then and developed some unique pieces of technology based on innovative approaches to KM. And, just for the record, ‘K” in K-bus stands for ‘Knowledge”. R&D center of the company was in Israel and head office – in US. Entopia went out of business in 2006, primarily because of management problems.

Please contact me if you need any additional info.

Regards,
Igor Blyuss

By: Oliver Griffiths

Oliver Griffiths — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:08:13 +0000

They want off the radar & suddenly Oracle launched it’s enterprise knowledge search tool. I worked for Ark Group & I know people who could get in contact with the Entopia exec if you interested. I seem to recall they had developers over in Israel. Yes it was amaizing & I was so supprised when they disapeard & next thing Oracle has major launch of enterprise seach system – Sure it’s a cooinsidence.

By: Stephen E. Arnold

Stephen E. Arnold — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:19:57 +0000

Eric, thanks for the comment. I appreciate the additional information.

Stephen Arnold, June 9, 2008

By: Eric Wells

Eric Wells — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:55:45 +0000

1999 I was working for ZDNet’s Software Downloads Library where I was exposed to huge varieties and amounts of interesting shareware/freeware apps. One such program was KangarooNet. I loved it as a personal productivity tool and tried to contact them to research it for a possible online presentation within the ZDNet channels.

I learned then (2001) they were in “transition” and about to re-emerge as Entopia with a new version of KangarooNet to be called Quantum, which proved to be KangarooNet on steroids. Soon after they introduced their K-Bus technology and were obviously going for the Enterprise client rather than the personal information assistant type of “thing”.

Honestly, I think they bit off a bit too much and I agree with you now in hindsight they may have been under-funded. I do believe they were ahead of the tech curve, nevertheless, for Quantum’s ability to factor-in the social relationships relatvie to the information collected at the desktop (bottom).

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