- Bloomba
Infobox Software
name = Bloomba
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developer =Stata Laboratories
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genre =E-mail Client
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website = [http://www.statalabs.com/ http://www.statalabs.com/] & [http://www.isofttech.com/ iSoftTech]Bloomba is an
e-mail client publicly announced February 2003 atIDG 's DEMO showcite news | first = Henry | last = McCracken| title = "Introducing E-Mail's Next Generation" | magazine = PCWorld.com | date =2003-02-18 | year = 2003 | url = http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,109424/article.html] . It was released in October 2003. Bloomba's developer, Stata Laboratories, Inc. (also the producers of theSAProxy anti spam filter) was purchased by Yahoo in October 2004cite news | title = "Yahoo! Acquires Stata Labs" | date =2004-10-21 | year = 2004 | magazine = InformationWeek | url = http://www.informationweek.com/software/messaging/51000152] ,at which time sales of Bloomba were suspended.In May 2005, Bloomba was licensed to Corel Corporation and re-released as
WordPerfect Mail, a component of the WordPerfect Office family. WordPerfect Office is currently the most widely used alternative to Microsoft Office.Bloomba's primary focus is fast searching of e-mail. According to
PC Magazine , it is up to eight times faster than Outlook in searching e-mail. It also earned PC Magazine's highest marks along with Eudora and OutlookOne of the interesting features is its risk free installation. That is, it states that it can be installed beside an installation of Outlook or Eudora without interfering with the operation of the other e-mail client.
Aside from the fast search, Bloomba appears to be comparable to Outlook or Eudora in its features and functionality.
Bloomba was co-developed by Chennai-based [http://www.isofttech.com/ iSoftTech] , a software outsourcing firm engaged by Stata Labs.
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Comparison of e-mail clients Notes
External links
* [http://www.statalabs.com/ Authors of Bloomba]
* [http://www.bpodigest.com/node/view/734?PHPSESSID=e568b636b9590d60c85b359fbbbb2086 iSoftTech]
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