What problems does Google Wave solve?

Re:What problems does Google Wave solve? by jaaron on Thursday October 15, 2009 @09:40AM (#883346)

Have you ever tried to use forums or Google Groups in a Fortune 500 company? Plenty of office workers have trouble with basic email. Getting them to use a forum or Google Groups is a lot of work for an IT staff. This is why you have products from Microsoft like SharePoint.

Google Wave is, IMHO, a godsend to corporate IT staff. It's a single application that solves several, very real office collaboration problems. Moreover, you can (or soon will) deploy it in-house, so you don't have to worry about a third-party hosted solution.

As far as I'm concerned, Google Wave solves all the problems of "intranets" and with a few robots and extensions makes a pretty decent project management tool too.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:What problems does Google Wave solve? by pasbesoin on Thursday October 15, 2009 @01:46PM (#883848)

I hadn't heard this, yet. It will be deployable/hostable locally/privately? I see this as a big obstacle to corporate use.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:What problems does Google Wave solve? by Jaykul on Thursday October 15, 2009 @03:39PM (#884100)

It's an open protocol, and part of Google's stack will be released open source. So yes, eventually you'll be able to set up a private behind-the-firewall wave server and federate with the private behind-the-firewall servers at other companies (presumably including a robust email-to-wave bridge).

[ Parent | on HN ]