Mar 8th, 2010 |
There’s a lot of speculation on various blogs about Google’s acquisition of DocVerse, a startup founded by former Microsoft employees to enable co-authoring of MS Office documents. Most of the discussion has focused on the potential of Google integrating DocVerse into its apps portfolio, but given the chasm in terms of feature/functionality between Google Apps and Microsoft Office, it doesn’t seem that the idea of a MS Office and Google App user co-authoring a document is going to be feasible anytime soon.
Instead, is it possible that Google aims to position DocVerse as a hosted alternative to SharePoint for workgroup collaboratation, delivering a Wave-like functionality that integrates with Microsoft Office as a separate service from its Apps? The universe of Microsoft Office users is a massive order of magnitude larger than those using Google Apps, or who will use Google Apps in the next few years, so why not challenge Microsoft’s two big growth engines - SharePoint, and the forthcoming Office Live Workspace to provide a real-time collaboration capability compatible with Microsoft’s desktop suite?
Interesting premise. I think using Google Wave within MS Office could be a very interesting solution for companies looking to manage their ad-hoc, unstructured human processes currently managed in email and documents.
All of a sudden documents move from being passive participants in process - to active drivers of the process - they become live documents. We have been doing this for a while on Microsoft’s infrastructure (Office+Outlook) with very good results (you can see more at http://www.actionbase.com)
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