Watching the Google Wave demo and reading Tim O’Reilly’s enthusiastic review, it struck me how amazingly cool Wave promises to be…and just how paltry most enterprise software remains. Sure, you think: it’s easy for Google to innovate. It has thousands of engineers! Maybe. But I don’t remember Microsoft coming up with Wave, and it has even more engineers. Neither did IBM, Oracle, SAP, etc. Google did, and it started Wave with a small core team of two brothers, a core team that appears to have done much of the work gestating Wave to its currently demo-able state. There’s a very good reason that Google innovated Wave, and not, for example, IBM.
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Google Wave: Why it’s so good and enterprise software is so bad
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009The enterprise implications of Google Wave
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Dion Hinchcliffe: I’m betting that it’s likely to be one of the most interesting offerings to businesses that the company has created yet. With the open positioning, early outreach to the world, and the clarity of purpose and design, Google Wave has a good shot at helping take Enterprise 2.0 to the next level in many organizations.
Wave’s Potential for Enterprise Integration
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Could this innovative communications platform be a ‘Holy Grail’ for enterprise application integration? Obviously, it’s too soon to tell – Wave isn’t even available for the public yet — and the use of “Holy Grail” always reeks of hyperbole, but there are others who believe there are enterprise integration possibilities.
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