Google sticks Wave in a box, puts a bow on top

Google Wave is not going away—it's going in a box. The Wave team plans to flesh out the open source code it has already released and turn it into "Wave in a Box" so that developers can run Wave servers on their own hardware.

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[erikengh]

I do not get the negativity about Wave. I think it was a great concept. The main problem is the network effect. It isn't fully usable until a lot of people is already on it. Not sure what these speed problems people talk about where. I used it over regular home network connection and found no problems getting text sent in realtime over the internet e.g. Worked faster than in Google Docs which never seemed satisfactory fast to me.

I think wave will be a great replacement for wiki's and forums internally at companies. I can also imagine things like Stackoverlfow, wikipedia, facebook could be better with Wave as a foundation instead.

Never ended up using it much myself becaue nobody else was on it, but I am interested in pushing this at our company as a replacement for wiki. Anybody else think it has good potential as a wiki replacement? I mean is there really anything wiki does better?