This is why the work on Wave in a Box (WIAB) continues. While Google may eventually shut down the gwave servers, before that happens there should be WIAB/ Apache Wave servers and service providers to pick up the slack. It might actually end up as a better product (no offense to the folks who build the original...) due to the open source nature of the code.
More importantly, we need to come up with use cases for the technology. I don't believe that has been done well enough to date. Now we have another one. My $.02. YMMV. Mark On Nov 30, 2:02 pm, chojrak <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I've not found any better place to write, so I'm trying here. > > In short: aren't there any chances that Google Wave could remain > living zombie the same way Google Notebook is? Notebook is also > stagnant, abandoned, but wasn't killed (which is good for all faithful > users like me). You say that Wave haven't attracted as many users as > expected, but it doesn't mean it attracted no-one! > > For a long time I also haven't found the use for it. Last month it > changed. One of my coworker, which is responsible for very > sophisticated project (implementing large scale Warehouse Management > System with production and 3rd party logistics and integrating with > ERP, for the curious) for several sites, came to me for help. > > As he shown me, his duties involve amazing number of sophisticated > tasks, all of which are discussed for a few days mostly by email, and > consist mostly of reply to reply to a previous reply to a forwarded > message in a group of people. That creates stunning number of messages > and knowledge. Coordinating these is impossible. People often respond > to obsolete messages, because email doesn't have enough context > available (I mean in a very long message there are chances somebody > just put a sentence in the place nobody will notice). Typical long- > living message is a colorful mess of random sentences. Same for groups > and spreadsheets. Lack of proper tool makes people invent new > attachments and put even more facts there. Thus there are problems > arranging things. Knowledge is scattered and there's no single place > that would contain everything. Decisions are often made based on > outdated or partial information. > > So we looked for alternatives (Google based) and tried documents, > spreadsheets and groups. But NONE OF THEM worked. Our problem was > simply out of their domain. Only product that worked was Google Wave. > It has the ability to comment on comment on comment on each chosen > sentence, by just right-clicking, without risk of losing context, > allowing quickly locate required contents. If the issue gets too long, > one click can extract it to a new wave, which then grows by itself. IT > REALLY WORKS! We tested it and it's PERFECT! Not to mention polls and > other useful tools! > > Then we've read that Google is most probably pulling the plug next > year. That's sad. Wouldn't it work if you kept Wave running but not > supported, just like Notebook? > > What is the problem with Wave alternatives? They are simply not as > good as Wave! > > Our last hope is you, Dear Google. > > Thanks for your patience. > chojrak -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en.
