August 2010
The Death of Google Wave and the Risk of Using Non-Enterprise Tools
Categories: Technology
The crest of Google Wave has come and gone. Just over a year ago there were people on Ebay clambering to buy an invitation to the service and now, not even twelve months later, Google has announced that Wave was not a success and that it will be shut down. Whether you jumped on the Wave bandwagon or not we all have to wonder whether it's even worth it to get acclimated to a new tool if the owners/creators of that tool can just shut it down leaving our data and our work hanging out to dry. It would be easy to use such a case to justify only using enterprise tools that live on company-controlled servers that may not be the best tools for the job but are at least under our control. It would be easy but it wouldn't always be right.continue reading »
