But why is the deal?
Joe Kraus in this post sheded some initail light on this question all of us have in mind. He along with Graham Spencer co-founded Jotspot after they left Excite. In his post he made it clear that Jotspot and Google share the same vision of building platforms for people to create, manage and share information online. Jotspot was also very eager to join hands. As Joe says ..
Joining Google allows us to plug into the resources that only a company of Google’s scale can offer, like a huge audience, access to world-class data centers and a team of incredibly smart people.
A more detailed explanation can be found at this page where Jotspot makes it clear that ..
Google shares JotSpot’s vision for helping people collaborate, share and work together online. JotSpot’s team and technology are a strong fit with existing Google products like Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Apps for Your Domain and Google Groups.
So to conclude the acquisition is all about building a more community oriented online collaborative platform. You may also get some detailed discussion up here and here. So the big question again looms high .. Whoz next??
