JotSpot aquired by Google!

Posted on | October 31, 2006 | No Comments

the official Google blog just has announced the aquisition of JotSpot, a well-known player in the market of collaborative wiki- & online-office products reviewed some time ago. as for the deal, I’m not sure what to make of it: while few key-modules of JotSpot (spreadsheets, word processing) are already part of Google’s web-office offering (in my opinion outperforming JotSpot’s counterparts), JotSpot could bring in new features like business-oriented wikis, project management, call-tracking, knowledgebase- and recruiting-management etc. regarding how long it took Google to snort up integrate Writely, I wonder if they wouldn’t be better off adding their own wiki-functioniality to Google Office, which is just taking shape.

for the moment, JotSpot’s registration is closed until accounts are integrated with Google, charged JotSpot-customers will be converted to free-accounts (while remaining functionality, of course).

update: following coverage at GigaOm and TechCrunch.

 

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