Neotonic Software Explained

Neotonic Software Corporation
Type:Subsidiary of Google since 2003.
Genre:Customer Support
Fate:acquired by Google in 2003
Successor:Trax and Google Groups
Founder:David Jeske and Brandon Long
Location City:San Francisco
Location Country:USA
Key People:David Jeske and Brandon Long
Products:Trakken and ClearSilver
Owner:Google
Parent:Google

Neotonic Software was a San Francisco based company that produced technology for email customer support, founded by David Jeske and Brandon Long in 2001. Google acquired the company in April 2003,[1] bringing its Trakken CRM product in-house where it was still in use as recently as March 2009.[2] The company also developed the ClearSilver web templating language and the Archive email web archive. ClearSilver is open source and is used by several Google products and other projects such as Trac.[3] The ideas behind Archive formed the basis for Google Groups.[4]

Prior to Neotonic Software, David Jeske and Brandon Long worked together at eGroups and at Yahoo on Yahoo! Groups. Both also attended the University of Illinois.

Notes and References

  1. http://pulse2.com/2008/10/04/a-history-of-google-acquisitions-and-where-they-are-today/ Neotonic Acquisition
  2. http://www.downtempo.net/blog/company/google-still-using-neotonic-trakken-6-years-later/ Google Still Using Neotonic Trakken 6 Years Later
  3. http://www.clearsilver.net/examples.hdf ClearSilver Examples
  4. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-acquires-neotonic-software/621/ Google acquires Neotonic Software