e-nnovate goes open source

We are currently preparing a dual-license release with GPL for non-commercial and our own for commercial use -- we are still working on the details.

I have reworked the site and reinstituted the demo account for trying e-nnovate out. I also made e-nnovate express available for download and free personal (non commercial) use.

Changes

I will have some demo accounts up soon... so stay tuned.

Holiday Letter [from Dec 07]

Happy Holidays,

I will be looking back at this year with mixed feelings. On the one side we had tremendous success – we signed up several customers, were among the finalists for UCSD’s business plan contest, and had an actual class using e-nnovate’s product successful. On the other hand we didn’t meet our financial targets – and this led to some refocusing in the team and the following (important) announcement.

Let’s talk about the tremendous team who supported this venture during the last four year: Jared, our user representative, is gearing up to pursue a post doctoral entrepreneurial program in medical devices at Stanford university. While working at e-nnovate he also earned a PhD in Bioengineering from UCSD. Congrats!! Nick, who was instrumental in getting us going, has since helped several other start-ups and is now looking to become a radiologist (he just finished his MD/PhD program). [...] Joy will be finishing her MBA at Stanford this year and pursue a career in process consulting. This tells you about the quality of our team and how fortunate I was to work with them. I think, I am talking for all of us, when I say, that we learned a lot from you, our users, and this essentially got us where we are.

The variety of things I am doing would warrant another e-mail – so I will focus on my consulting company Eichberger Services because this will be most relevant for this letter: I have grown Eichberger Services in the last year tremendously and performed IT Strategy projects in Australia and the US. Furthermore the e-nnovate software is now fully integrated into Eichberger Services.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Eichberger Services will retire the e-nnovate service at www.e-nnovate.com on 1/16. Customers are advised to back up there notes via the backup function in Settings->Backup or make alternate arrangements by contacting info@e-nnovate.com Eichberger Services will retain an encrypted backup of the complete database and will be able to extract certain lab notebooks for a fee after ownership is verified.

Eichberger Services will contact customers of the Virtual Lab Server in January 2008.

Eichberger Services will continue its world class support for customers of stand-alone lab server installations and provide updates and fixes.

I am making this announcement as I said with mixed feelings – on the one hand the e-nnovate product will not any more have the attention I think it deserves -- on the other hand I am excited about the teams new opportunities and of course the tremendous growth ahead for Eichberger Services –

Thanks for being our customers –

Happy Holidays,

German Eichberger, CEO Eichberger Services