This is Mickaël Rémond, Founder of ProcessOne, maker of ejabberd.
I would like to wish you, customers, users, contributors, a great year 2023, for you and your family. I wish you happiness and success in your projects. I wish you serenity in the turmoil of our connected world.
This time of the year is the moment to ponder what is coming. After three very strange years, I am sure you are witnessing as we do that something is happening.
A transformation process is at work in the technology industry. The motto this year is independence.
As always, in almost 20 years of existence we are seeing a swing of the pendulum and a new trend in which decentralization and federation are coming back with strength. We see new services emerging, using our realtime tools, in places where companies had been using big tech company infrastructure in the past.
This is a time in which small niche players like ProcessOne are getting a boost. This is an exciting time, because it is a moment where opportunities can be seized in a kind of a reshuffle of the power at play in the IT world. The myth of Silicon Valley is dissolving, the fragility of iconic tech companies is becoming apparent. Companies of various sizes are taking their chance and ProcessOne is helping other companies build those independent services.
Decentralization through the federation is at the heart of the XMPP communication protocol and is critical to building interoperable systems. With our ejabberd software, we are uniquely positioned to take advantage of this move, on XMPP and all the protocols we implement (XMPP, MQTT, SIP and Matrix).
Please, contact us if you think we can help you ride the wave and address your challenges in the coming year.
Thanks for working with us !
My best regards,
— Mickaël Rémond
