The cool thing is that this isn’t coming from me, who would obviously benefit from such a move, but from a recent San Jose Mercury News article that attempts to make some bold predictions for 2006.

The office moves to the Web. Documents, e-mail and spreadsheets move off your desktop computer to the Web.

I just read a great article about On Demand Software over at SFGate. It’s interesting to see the mainstream media perspective on this trend, and it makes what we’re doing feel that much more real.

For all you folks who have been patiently waiting to be added to our beta… it wont be long now (Less than a month or so). We’ve been polishing up some great new features that we’re really excited to share with everyone.

Happy Holidays!

The Gliffy closed beta has begun. We’ll slowly add more user to the closed beta in the next several weeks/months. Browse on over to http://www.gliffy.com and you can see our new home on the web. In fact, as of today, we are no longer Silver Tie Software, but Gliffy, Inc. Our first application is a diagram editor. Imagine Visio deployed over the web, with instant collaboration features. Interested in joining the beta? Send an email to info@gliffy.com.

A lot of hard work from many people helped to make this happen. A short list:

• Clint Dickson - Founder - Director of Engineering
• Lyla Warren - Founder - Creative Director
• Dana Yobst - Early involvement with Biz Dev and more
• Andrew D. Toebben and Gundersen Dettmer - Legal
• Henry Lyne - Helped us build out soon to be defunct http://www.silvertie.com
• Jason Lee - Helped talk through technical and strategic issues
• Dennis Yang - Provided us valuable insight early on
• Jo Ann Promponsatorn - Accounting advice
• Mom & Dad - I might need a loan from you soon!
• …and everyone else who listened to me talk non-stop about what we’re doing, providing feedback, etc.