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Google Wave lives on -- as Novell Pulse
Granted, the majority of us will never use it since it's an enterprise solution, but Wave is still alive and kicking in many ways as the underlying base for Novell Pulse. Due to be released sometime in the second-half of the year, the project is nearly ready for its debut into the exciting world of conferences, collaborative document editing, and boardroom stick-figure doodling.
Though largely unheard of, Pulse has been in development for quite some time now. Novell had planned to make it a suit-wearing, time-is-money sort of corporate version of the very generic original. To that end, it's not unlikely that more Wave derivatives may crop up in the near future, since the original Wave Federation Protocol is still available and begging for attention.
Pulse is set to be available as a cloud service at first, with "on-site deployment" planned as a later option. Big selling points for the service seem to be all the same things that Google said were great about Wave, with a big added dose of corporate INFOSEC. It's certainly not the happy Wave we all knew and neglected, it's all business.
It's only been days since the announcement of Wave's impending demise, so it'll be interesting to see just how many organizations actually start using Pulse later this year, given that Wave was so ill-received by the masses. Those same masses may well carry their dislike for the protocol with them to their newly Pulse'd workplaces should their employers choose to utilize Novell's new baby.
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Subscribe to commentsHexDSLAug 8th 2010 6:44AM
yes but...
1) will it be free?
2) will it be as good?
HexDSLAug 8th 2010 6:44AM
also will there be an android app/email integration?
speedwaystarAug 8th 2010 7:13AM
that's *worse* than if it had died
stinlen56Aug 8th 2010 7:33AM
I was a critic of wave. I thought it lacked focus and a purpose; an answer in search of a question. Now I think this incarnation has gained those missing pieces. Just as SharePoint would have no purpose or at least be equally shunned on the open nets, the segmentation provided by limiting this to the purview of companies makes so much more sense.
digitalseditionAug 8th 2010 1:28PM
Pulse didn't really "gain" these features as it is just a Federated Wave engine with a prettier and more useful face.
stinlen56Aug 8th 2010 5:31PM
wait, so you're saying it's more useful, but didn't gain anything? I think you should rethink that. My point is that wave in this incarnation is gaining focus by limiting its scope.
JesusAug 8th 2010 4:37PM
Problem with Wave/Pulse/WhateverComesNext is that everything it claims to do is already being outdone by Groove/SharePoint Workspaces. What Google fails to understand is that Enterprises want to keep their data to themselves. They don't want to share their quarterly earnings on the interwebs even though Google claims it is secure to do so. Users maybe naive enough to believe Google with their personal data, Enterprises aren't.
stinlen56Aug 8th 2010 5:34PM
That's a great point. While on paper it might make fiscal sense to run all your data through off-site services, enterprises by and large just don't want to do this - and I don't blame them.
vkelmanAug 22nd 2010 4:43PM
SharePoint is monstrous, inflexible, greatly over-complicated application, which requires much more than it can provide. Our company spent way too much money and efforts trying to incorporate it, just to abandon that idea and revert to our custom in-house developed .NET Intranet.