Google Has No Plans to Develop "Old Marratech"

Sunday, August 19th, 2007;
-- Andy Beal |

It’s been four months since Google acquired web video conferencing technology Marratech.

Since then, we’ve waited for news of what Google has planned next for Marratech. Well, thanks to a tip from a Wayne, we learn that Google has no plans to continue with “old Marratech” as a platform. According to the Marratech blog…

What has happened is that Google has bought the product (the Marratech client and server software) and the rights to that plus has taken over the core team of old Marratech. So there will be no further development of the “old Marratech” products and the 6.1 / 3.5 release will be the last.

What will happen with the products under Google wings then? Well, time will tell - there are no further information available at this point.
Regards,

/Rikard Stenberg, ex. Marratech, now @ Google…

So no official word–still–on when we might see Google Web Conferencing, but at least we can assume that any video conferencing technology will be launched using the Google brand.

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5 Responses to “Google Has No Plans to Develop "Old Marratech"”

  1. » Google Cuts Off Marratech » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel Says:

    [...] guys who came over to Google when their company was acquired in April, said on a forum posting that Google has no plans to continue developing the software. Google bought the product, took over the core team, and will not be developing the Marratech [...]

  2. Gronk Says:

    wayne kerr - that’s funny.

  3. Andy Beal Says:

    @Gronk - lol he got me with that one!

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    [...] for PC’s and Mac’s that apparently Google has no plans to develop. A tipster wrote into Andy Beal and and forwarded a link to the Marratech forums, where ex Marratech employee, now with Google, [...]

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