Google may have given Wave it’s marching orders and reassigned its team members and lost the chief architect behind the short lived group-working system but that doesn’t mean Wave is dead. A new Apache Incubator proposal would see an open source version of the technology – hosted by “Wave in a Box” (WIAB) projects called Apache Wave live on – notby Google.

“Wave in a Box (WIAB) is the name of the main product at the moment, which is a server that hosts and federates waves, supports extensive APIs, and provides a rich web client. This project also includes an implementation of the Wave Federation protocol, to enable federated collaboration systems (such as multiple interoperable Wave In a Box instances).” Proposal

The Apache Wave would be more like existing mail server implementations, with a web-based client interface on top of underlying servers that actually host the Waves themselves. Despite Google’s final decision to shift away from official development, some engineers at the company are still working on the project. There are also apparently various companies and individuals either submitting code or expressing interest in the project as a standalone venture. “We anticipate early future committers coming from places like Novell, SAP, companies related to the US Navy’s usage of wave, startups in the wave ecosystem, and many independent individuals” the project submission suggests. More information here.

Personally, Google Wave is something we love to use and when we first heard about Google shutting down development, we were upset. Hearing about the project continuing brings light at the end of the tunnel. What do you think of the news? Let us know in the comments below. As usual, stay tuned for more news and info on the topic by following us on Twitter and/or subscribing to our RSS feed.

[Source: PC World]

Authors: TechHead

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