History
Collanos Software was established in November 2003 in Switzerland by Franco Dal Molin. Before that Dal Molin founded Object Solutions and sold it to GFT Technologies. He funded development via personal savings, family and friends, near-sourcing some of the development in Ukraine.
The company's name Collanos is derived from the words Collaboration and Nous (Greek: mind; human thought).
A first English Beta version Collanos Workplace 1.0 Beta was launched on June 19, 2006, targeting English speaking internet users.
Collanos Software was elected for the first time into Cash Magazine's Swiss Top 50 Venture list on December 14, 2006.
On December 14, 2006, Collanos introduced the general availability version 1.0 of Workplace.
A German version was released on February 8, 2007. In March 2007 at CEBIT in Hanover, Germany, Collanos Workplace won the Innovation Prize ITK 2007 in the Office Organization Category.
On May 24, 2007, Collanos released version 1.1 including Chinese language support and establishing a global network for team collaboration.
Collanos Software was one of three collaboration software companies proposed for the Emerging Tech Award 2007 by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal on November 2, 2007.
Making Collanos Phone available in a first Beta version on January 6, 2008 Collanos complemented it's teamwork services with voice and multiprotocol instant messaging features.
The last updates on either its corporate website or its forums were in spring 2010: as of spring 2011 and in the light of an unresponsive company, it must be concluded that, though the software can still be downloaded and used, the company has ceased development of its product.
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