Devnet jumps on the Google Wave

June 4, 2009:Google Wave is a potential game changer in the business collaboration market, according to Australian Google Enterprise Apps partner Devnet.

A new collaboration platform launched by Google, Wave unites email, instant messaging, blogs, wikis and other technologies into a single hosted conversation.

"Our recommendation is that organisations running legacy solutions like Microsoft Exchange or Sharepoint, seriously consider the potential impact that Google Wave may have before embarking on any significant upgrades of those technologies," said Devnet managingdirector Craig Deveson.

Deveson said that the Wave protocol will allow anyone to become a Wave provider and share Waves with others, opening up enormous opportunity for innovation from all organisations.

Deveson said Devnet's faith in the future of Google Wave stemmed froma number of facts including:

- The attraction of uniting the many disparate electronic communication tools in a single, easy-to-use platform; and

- The proven track record of the Sydney-based development (Lars Rasmussen) team who helped create Google Maps; and

- The fact that the technology has been made open source, which will help it attract investment and developer support; and

- Google's history of providing great APIs for its developer community

"Google Wave is further evidence that we are still in the very early days of understanding how cloud-based computing is going to change the way to work, communicate and live. Cloud-based computing has already proven itself as a superior computing model based on cost and manageability but the next-generation cloud-computing applications, like Google Wave, will deliver much more powerful collaboration functionality that will force us all to rethink the way we do business," he said.