Google Eyeing Microsoft Territory?
Google has announced taking-over of JotSpot, a pioneer in Web applications.
Earlier this year, the search giant bought Upstartle, who are the makers of Writely, a Web-based word processing software that allows users to create and edit documents online. The Upstartle acquisition was seen as something of an attempt by Google to add word processing to its existing list of accomplishments.
At the time, Google maintained that the take-over was meant to place the Internet at the centre of the consumer experience. However, the industry typically saw the move as putting Google in direct competition with the likes of Microsoft.
Significantly, post this acquisition, Google also came out with Web-based applications like Google Spreadsheets and Google Calendar.
That past, the latest take-over of JotSpot seems to be quite in line with the industry thinking that Google is in fact trying to slowly and steadily enter a space that has been more or less dominated by Microsoft.
A visit to the Google Web site confirms the JotSpot acquisition, with a statement from none other than the Co-founder and Chief Executive of JotSpot, Joe Kraus, which says that the start-up finally agreed to the takeover by Google, thanks to Google's increasingly aggressive attempts at pushing competing software.
However, the financial terms of the deal are nowhere revealed on the Web site.
JotSpot, a three-year old company, has developed online productivity software programs offering functions similar to those of Microsoft Word or Excel, the difference being that these applications are in the nature of Web-based offerings.
The company was founded in 2003 with a starting capital of $300,000, by co-founders Kraus and Graham Spencer, who have also helped start the popular Excite.com.
The main thing about JotSpot's online software programs is that they run on collaborative wiki software, which is a flexible form of Web publishing that allows any approved user in a group to edit or change individual documents.
In fact, JotSpot has been instrumental in exalting the status of wikis from that of a software for geeks to a software that can also be deployed by non-technical home/office based groups.
Meanwhile, JotSpot has temporarily shut down new user registrations while it moves its Web services and existing customer data onto Google's computer systems.
But, as Kraus said, the company will continue to support its existing customers during the transition phase.
However, nothing's been said about whether Google plans to develop JotSpot's wiki-based software system further or move JotSpot to run on its own underlying software systems...
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Earlier this year, the search giant bought Upstartle, who are the makers of Writely, a Web-based word processing software that allows users to create and edit documents online. The Upstartle acquisition was seen as something of an attempt by Google to add word processing to its existing list of accomplishments.
At the time, Google maintained that the take-over was meant to place the Internet at the centre of the consumer experience. However, the industry typically saw the move as putting Google in direct competition with the likes of Microsoft.
Significantly, post this acquisition, Google also came out with Web-based applications like Google Spreadsheets and Google Calendar.
That past, the latest take-over of JotSpot seems to be quite in line with the industry thinking that Google is in fact trying to slowly and steadily enter a space that has been more or less dominated by Microsoft.
A visit to the Google Web site confirms the JotSpot acquisition, with a statement from none other than the Co-founder and Chief Executive of JotSpot, Joe Kraus, which says that the start-up finally agreed to the takeover by Google, thanks to Google's increasingly aggressive attempts at pushing competing software.
However, the financial terms of the deal are nowhere revealed on the Web site.
JotSpot, a three-year old company, has developed online productivity software programs offering functions similar to those of Microsoft Word or Excel, the difference being that these applications are in the nature of Web-based offerings.
The company was founded in 2003 with a starting capital of $300,000, by co-founders Kraus and Graham Spencer, who have also helped start the popular Excite.com.
The main thing about JotSpot's online software programs is that they run on collaborative wiki software, which is a flexible form of Web publishing that allows any approved user in a group to edit or change individual documents.
In fact, JotSpot has been instrumental in exalting the status of wikis from that of a software for geeks to a software that can also be deployed by non-technical home/office based groups.
Meanwhile, JotSpot has temporarily shut down new user registrations while it moves its Web services and existing customer data onto Google's computer systems.
But, as Kraus said, the company will continue to support its existing customers during the transition phase.
However, nothing's been said about whether Google plans to develop JotSpot's wiki-based software system further or move JotSpot to run on its own underlying software systems...
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