Google Wave becomes Wave in a Box
Google Wave, the social networking service recently cancelled by Google, will morph into an application bundle for real-time collaboration, a Google engineer said this week.
Google Wave, the social networking service recently cancelled by Google, will morph into an application bundle for real-time collaboration, a Google engineer said this week.
Although Google Wave will go down as one of Google's few high-profile failures to date, the innovative collaboration tool did attract a small group of dedicated followers who hope it will live on as an open source project.
Google will make its Wave collaboration and communication tool available to anyone who wants to try it out on Wednesday at its I/O developer conference.
In order to boost its Wave product, Google has acquired AppJet, which makes the EtherPad real-time workgroup collaboration application.
SAP is planning to release a "virtual war room" decision-making tool dubbed Constellation, which could be a potential rival to Google's heralded Wave collaboration platform.
Google's Wave communication and collaboration platform is getting early interest from enterprise application vendors like Salesforce.com and SAP.
Google's latest offering, the Web-based real-time collaboration suite dubbed Wave, began life in Sydney, Australia, as a start-up project built with Google's open source Web Toolkit project.