I liked this quote from Tony Rizzo, Sector Head of Mobile Software at the 451 Group (OK so, I’m biased):

“We like to think of Colligo as a spunky vendor that has found a position that allows it to leverage some hard-won expertise in the SharePoint offline marketplace. Colligo’s strength is in the quality of its product and platform offering. The offline client clearly delivers a significant productivity gain for users, enough so that desktop users also want the services provided. In turn, that generates multiple points of strong demand.”

Thanks Tony!

Excuse the blatant promotion here, but I’m pretty happy to see our baby finally becoming the success we hoped it would be…You can read the full press release here.

“Mobility is an inevitable trend,” says Brown. “Currently, nearly 40% of the European workforce is mobile and this number will only increase. Although employers still seem a bit uncomfortable with this growth, the fact is their companies are expanding and becoming more global, therefore, the demands they have on employees are increasing. Working lives and private lives are changing and the boundaries are blurring.”

That’s a real, live trend folks, if I’ve ever seen one. Of course this is great news for the hardware manufacturers (the Dells, Toshibas, and RIMs of the world) that make the gadgets that power the mobile warriors. But digging a bit deeper, there’s clearly something brewing here for software providers that are supporting the mobile workforce.

I bet that the number of European workers who were truely mobile 10 years ago was probably <10%… yeah, that’s a trend right there.