Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions)
Your first question comes from the line of Charles Strauzer with CJS Securities. Please proceed.
Charles Strauzer - CJS Securities
Hi, good morning.
Lee Schram
Hi, Charlie.
Charles Strauzer - CJS Securities
If we can talk a little bit about, simplifying a lot of information that you just gave out on the acquisitions and the game plan, when you think about your 4 million plus small business customers and the Hostopia and how that fits in. What is the real simple kind of attack plan for introducing those 4 million customers to these new services?
Lee Schram
Charlie, this is what we are really excited about. I think the first thing you have to remember is that Hostopia brings their own, more telco wholesale model where they get their small businesses today. So they bring that. We don't think there is a significant same customer base there. So we first of all get that.
The second thing that we get is right away out, next week, as we officially get this transaction closed, we are ready to go with basically being able to introduce our customers into the Hostopia platform. We already have a process that we've built with Hostopia to be able to do that. So, we open up right away to what we saw is demand for web services from the partnership that we had started.
Now we see, not only what we created with that partnership but really being able to expand, because what Hostopia brings is a tremendous platform, not just hosting as I said, they bring web services, e-mail marketing, they purchased a mobile company so they bring that They have a fax to e-mail capability. So all the services we see coming to our small business customers and they are asking for these services. So I think that is important.
The other thing really critical for us is, there is a lot of the hosting companies are out there gobbling up other web services companies and they have all these despair platforms. What the Hostopia team has done is they have created just a fantastic unified platform. They have some patentable technology that they have got in terms of what they've created and it is a single platform. We see the ability to really add-on a lot of the other acquisitions and other services that we have already and just creating an easy go-to market and a simple go-to market platform for our customers.
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