Laszlo Systems gets customer win with Verizon

Laszlo Systems will be rolling out a version of their webtop to Verizon customers. Last week after the RIA panel at the Office 2.0 conference I talked with David Temkin, the CTO of Laszlo Systems about what the company is up to. The Verizon win is significant for the company especially as they move to get more traction for their webtop suite.

The WebOS market has become a crowded affair, but Laszlo has been quietly adding customers and functionality to their webtop. Because the underlying technology is all OpenLaszlo, the company can roll out features quickly and their developer community can use the APIs to build in functionality. They offer it as a licensed product that can be branded and modified to suit the customer's needs.

The Verizon deal focuses on email and includes a branded webtop that the company will be first rolling out to their FIOS customers and then later to their other broadband subscribers. The company is offering 4 GB of storage with the webtop in addition to the richer interface. I think it's good to see a company like Verizon offering a much richer experience for their broadband customers and using it as a differentiator between the competition.

Sarah Allen has more information on her blog.