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Google Wave is kind of like the Snuggie. You either immediately see its genius or can't figure out why anyone would bother. When Google announced plans last month to shut down development of Wave and open source its code for anyone who wants it, some users were crushed while others just yawned. If you fall into the I love Wave camp, then you'll be glad to know the Google Wave team has new plans for the now defunct project.
Just the other day, we were considering what impact on enterprises the dust-up between Google and Oracle may have. In case, you?ve been trapped under a rock for the past couple of weeks, Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google claiming that it inappropriately modified aspects of the Java code. Now, Google?considered by many to be extremely friendly to open source, especially among large tech companies?has pledged to pull out of the big Java One conference, which tends to have news full of relevance for enterprises and smaller businesses alike. Meanwhile, some observers are claiming that Google may indeed be in the wrong in the case.? But isn?t Oracle pushing a questionable agenda?
Yesterday, to much fanfare, Google announced that users of Gmail will be able to make and receive free phone calls from their computers, communicating with phones. There were a lot of interpretations of the move, but?as was true when Google Voice arrived?it?s almost certainly another reason why carriers should be afraid of Google. Many people are asking how close to the phone company Google can become. One less discussed aspect of Google?s latest move, though, is how it may influence Google?s much awaited, soon to arrive Chrome OS.
Now that Oracle's lawsuit against Google regarding parts of the Java code used in the Android OS is widely discussed, many people seem to be waking up to the fact that the implications stretch far beyond the suit itself. We've already made the point that the suit represents a classic example of how maneuvers by a proprietary software company around an open (or in the case of Java, largely open) platform points to problems for all of open source. How, specifically, is the whole open source landscape threatened, though? What do IT administrators think of the whole thing?
