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| UPDATED: 2007-04-20 |
 Google Office Keeps Rolling 
By: Mathew Ingram 2007-04-20 Just a couple of days after buying Tonic, which gave the company a PowerPoint-style application to add to its growing toolbox of Office apps... ...Google has announced that it is buying Marratech, a company that makes a NetMeeting-type video-conferencing tool and is based in Sweden.  This isnt all that surprising, of course, since Google has clearly been building a Web-based Office suite ever since it bought Writely, which became Google Docs. One thing that surprises me, however, is that the application requires a download " unlike some of the other Web-based presentation or conferencing apps, such as Vyew and Zoho Meeting. I havent tried Zoho Meeting, but I have tried Vyew and it was easy to use and cross-platform (as is Zohos app, since it comes in an ActiveX, Java or Flash version). But what I dont get is why Google wqould pin its hopes on something that requires a download.
I know that they could bundle it with the rest of the Google apps that you can download as part of the Google Desktop, as Mike points out, but I still sort of look at Google as being the king of the works anywhere Web-based app. Moving to something that requires a download is kind of an odd step, I think. Just my two cents. (screenshot via Amit Agarwal) Comments Tag: Google, Marratech Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Reddit |  Furl
View All Articles by Mathew Ingram About the Author: Mathew Ingram is a technology writer and blogger for the Globe and Mail, a national newspaper based in Toronto, and also writes about the Web and media at www.mathewingram.com/work and www.mathewingram.com/media. |
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