CakeMail now offered in 8 local versions

By Heri Oct 24th 2007 in Business

I am giving a quick shout out to CakeMail which has now an additionnal language (Russian) for the email marketing software. I really like their efforts in localization. Montreal may not have Silicon Valley’s hot weather and certainly not the same level of activity of technology entrepreneurship but one of its true strengths lies in its diversity and its bilingual (if not trilingual or more) population. Bravo then to the CakeMail team!

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Comments

Duncan Moore October 25, 2007

Thanks for the mention, Heri.

Just to clarify, though: 5 of the 8 localizations are still in progress. Of course, we expect to add many more as time goes on!

At some point post-launch, we’ll be sharing a few thoughts about our experience with localization. It does add new layers to development, but the benefits far outweigh the extra effort involved. Et c’est très bien comme ça !

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