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From the News Desk
Thursday, 2. November 2006
Google Acquires JotSpot Collaboration Service
Google has bought JotSpot, a Wiki maker software solution.JotSpot was founded by Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer who'd earlier worked together on Excite.com.
According to Kraus, JotSpot began as a way to bring the power of wikis to a broad audience. He says that, over the past three years, Google had attracted their attention.
They saw how Google bought Writely, and launched Google Groups, Google Spreadsheets and Google Apps for Your Domain, which showed that Google and JotSpot shared similar visions. "Then when we had conversations with people at Google we found ourselves completing each other's sentences. Joining Google allows us to plug into the resources that only a company of Google's scale can offer, like a huge audience, access to world-class data centers and a team of incredibly smart people." says Kraus in a blog post.
Salar Kamangar, VP Product Management at Google said that Jotspot has "pioneered do-it-yourself application publishing, enabling anyone from individuals to small businesses and large enterprises to use wikis for online collaboration. Since we're just getting started on a long and exciting road in online collaboration for both consumers and our enterprise customers, joining forces with the JotSpot team comes at a great time."
As the first step in the integration, JotSpot will be moved to Google's software architecture. New registrations are switched off for now; in the meanwhile, a waitlist has been opened for those interested.
Socialtext to Provide Free Wiki Migration for JotSpot Customers
Socialtext, has revealed a free hosted wiki program for JotSpot customers following the acquistion. Socialtext will migrate JotSpot wiki content and provide one year of Socialtext Professional hosted wiki service to any JotSpot customer who signs up by the end of November 2006. While most JotSpot customers are small to mid-sized businesses, this offer is extended to deployments of any size; the company is quoted to have said.
"Our experience has been that JotSpot customers convert to Socialtext when they realise they need a real business-class wiki," said Socialtext CEO Ross Mayfield.
According to the company, prior to the Google announcement, JotSpot discontinued support of its Appliance product, leaving Socialtext with the only proven enterprise wiki
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According to Kraus, JotSpot began as a way to bring the power of wikis to a broad audience. He says that, over the past three years, Google had attracted their attention.
They saw how Google bought Writely, and launched Google Groups, Google Spreadsheets and Google Apps for Your Domain, which showed that Google and JotSpot shared similar visions. "Then when we had conversations with people at Google we found ourselves completing each other's sentences. Joining Google allows us to plug into the resources that only a company of Google's scale can offer, like a huge audience, access to world-class data centers and a team of incredibly smart people." says Kraus in a blog post.
Salar Kamangar, VP Product Management at Google said that Jotspot has "pioneered do-it-yourself application publishing, enabling anyone from individuals to small businesses and large enterprises to use wikis for online collaboration. Since we're just getting started on a long and exciting road in online collaboration for both consumers and our enterprise customers, joining forces with the JotSpot team comes at a great time."
As the first step in the integration, JotSpot will be moved to Google's software architecture. New registrations are switched off for now; in the meanwhile, a waitlist has been opened for those interested.
Socialtext to Provide Free Wiki Migration for JotSpot Customers
Socialtext, has revealed a free hosted wiki program for JotSpot customers following the acquistion. Socialtext will migrate JotSpot wiki content and provide one year of Socialtext Professional hosted wiki service to any JotSpot customer who signs up by the end of November 2006. While most JotSpot customers are small to mid-sized businesses, this offer is extended to deployments of any size; the company is quoted to have said.
"Our experience has been that JotSpot customers convert to Socialtext when they realise they need a real business-class wiki," said Socialtext CEO Ross Mayfield.
According to the company, prior to the Google announcement, JotSpot discontinued support of its Appliance product, leaving Socialtext with the only proven enterprise wiki
Related Links
Related Reading: Spot on Related Reading: What Joe said
