While Microsoft has their gunsights on the remaining 25M Domino seats, they’ve probably noted that many of the document paradigms (and successes) are an adtaption of what Mr. Ozzie et. al (Ray, Jack, Mussie Shore, others (maybe even Bob Balaban (oh hi bob!)) of Iris Associates and Lotus created. The principle difference being the document store is now a directory with XML versus a single object-oriented database. The DNA? Unids are similar. Parent child relationships are similar. Security inheritance different (for some reason.) Near instant, authenticated, communications with stateful client sessions.

What Google must remember is that within the enterprise, IT has to support the nearly 100% connected user. The nearly part is what’s going to get you – they’re the Information Workers.

(Guys, you can have a protocol but without a server and APIs, there’s no way to leverage it.)

Regardless, all of this is going to be a GREAT DEAL OF FUN!

No, not at all actually. It sounds like the first shoe of the next big thing dropping. Great analysis, Steve. Please keep it up, and more podcasts if at all possible, I really miss them.

If I were Microsoft, I would embrace, extend and embed Wave everywhere. What I wouldn’t do is try to come up with something new/better/different, especially if it’s proprietary. No one will trust Microsoft on anything like that. Maybe enterprises, but open source, open access is where we’re headed.

As with Twitter, the big question is how this gets monetized. With widespread adoption of Google Wave, there have to be opportunities for Google, Microsoft and companies we’ve never heard of.

~Lokesh

So there is a stream of gestures that either MSFT or GOOG can and will take advantage and possesion of. This raises many questions in my mind.

Coffee?

Wave/Mesh are scaring the smile out of me!

and so it is :-).

Great vindication for the XMPP folks who’ve spent years trying to tell people that it was always much more than just about chat…

- Bill

This could have a huge impact in the Content Management Systems market. Especially if Google transitions Apps to Wave and instantly start with tens of millions of users.

- scott -

This is not an API. It’s a protocol. Shrug it off at your own peril

That’s MP?? A simple edit window of Firefox can spell-check, which makes me wonder what makes Wave that much different from Facebook Framework, M$ Live Framework, MySpace APIs and so on? It seems every one has an over-hyped Web framework that never really matters and now Google jumps on the same bandwagon. Last year it was APP Engine which was hyped up as the killer cloud environment, well, whatever happened to that killer? It’s all silence recently. Google needs to deliver real meat instead of gimmick hypes all the time. It starts to feel like the Java all over again, beautiful talk w/ no meaningful follow-ups.