Gen-9 inc is a Delaware corporation founded in 2005 to build easy to use software tools that enable more productive use of the internet. It has released second version of its data management tool Noah recently. This aims at killing multiple birds with one stone.
I did not understand the vision behind it. Perhaps they decided to pack everything in a bundle. Such problems are better solved in step by step execution. I had some initial hiccups in getting along with it. Looking upon the installation flow, UI, message display, import flows etc, it seems that they should have hold the release and push it through a couple of more QA cycles. Product management has some unfinished business. Lot of half baked features are always worse than a few solid and robust ones. I was unable to to use it on first two or three times, and faced crashes while speaking to exchange server. A click on import froze it (some threading issue i believe). Thunderbird data could not be imported, which is my primary tool for interacting with internet and people. All information at one place is fine, but given the different sources of information, it can be assumed that user is not going to throw away his browser, email, reader, and use Noah instead. It was unable to proselytize me from existing firefox+thunderbird combination.
I realize the amount of efforts in building such a big software featuring variety of different components, and fully acknowledge the work those guys have done, but perhaps, this was not the right way to solve the problem. They must think about revamping it, and to better their offering.
ashish
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