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So these are the results of the EtherPad acquisition?
by sumeeta 17y ago
So these are the results of the EtherPad acquisition?
- niravs 17y agoSeems unlikely. It's awfully difficult to integrate an acquisition like EtherPad so quickly. I've read that they've been working on a real-time architecture from the ground up for a while. Plus, I think the Etherpad team joined Wave, not Docs.
- haydenchambers 17y agoThis reeks of wave arquitecture to me
- nikolayav 17y agoIt's related to acquisitions in a different way. That was mostly an attempt to put Docs(Writely) and Spreadsheets on as much common infrastructure as possible. You will remember that the original versions of these products were independently developed and then acquired by Google. Still haven't seen the results, but I assume they threw in a few features on the way also. Docs had seen no interesting additions in quite a while despite the very capable team. So now it is coming out of maintenance mode and will hopefully add features and stay relatively responsive.
- whimsy 17y agoIt does seem like they integrated the faster refresh rate so you can see what your collaborators are doing in real time rather than every 10 seconds. This was one of the features of EtherPad that the EtherPad team considered "a hard problem."
- simonw 17y agoI think it's more likely these are the results of the Neil Fraser acquisition: http://neil.fraser.name/news/2006/11/01/ http://neil.fraser.name/news/2006/11/01/
- rottencupcakes 17y agoNo, not in any way. I believe the techs are unrelated. However, it's nice that google puts this up 2 days before they take Etherpad down. I'd be lost without it.
- jared314 17y agoIt might be that Google Wave thing.