Podcast: Steve Chazin, Adesso

22-02-2007

by Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery's guest this episode is Steve Chazin. Steve is the Vice President of Marketing for Adesso. Tom invited Steve to explain Adesso's new filesharing and synchronisation offering called Tubes.

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Here are the questions Tom asked Steve and the times asked:

Steve can you tell us a little bit about Adesso? Where does the name come from? What does Adesso do? - 0:37

Is the enterprise product still available or has that been put to the side? - 01:49

What kind of price point does it come in at? Is it a per-seat model or how does it work? - 02:15

What was the thinking behind setting up Tubes? - 02:28

When you say two-way, is it using peer-to-peer technology, or client-server, or how does it work? - 03:23

The application is a standalone application, not a browser-based one? - 04:12

What kind of timeline is around the delivery of the web-fronted version of Tubes? - 05:51

Some of the functionality of Tubes is built-in to the likes of Office 2.0 applications. How do you see Tubes differentiating from those? 06:50

When I have my copy of Tubes, how do I get my friends to sign up for Tubes? - 10:20

And are the permissions you assign in Tubes on a file-per-file basis or on a per-Tube basis? - 12:50

What kind of storage limits are on the Tubes? - 13:49

What happens when you hit the 2GB limit? - 14:28

And so the business model is based around the premium version? - 15:21

On the premium accounts, is it only a storage boost you get or will there be other benefits as well? - 16:27

Is there any possibility of building versioning in? - 17:18

A lot of the use case scenarios you are describing involve people sharing photos with friends, etc. Are you seeing a lot of use in an enterprise environment with people sharing Word documents, spreadsheets and so on? - 18:21

One last question, will there be a Mac version released soon? - 20:21

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