Wave Servers
May 30, 2009
Interesting item from Cnet. The company reported here in “Google Won’t Run All the Wave Servers” an evolutionary step for the Google. Rafe Needleman corrected an earlier assertion that Google would run the Wave system itself. Not true. He wrote on May 29, 2009:
Google has said it will “federate” Wave. That means it will make it possible for anyone to operate their own Wave server and have it communicate with other Wave servers. This is just how e-mail works today: Anyone can run an e-mail server that can send messages to and receive messages from any other e-mail system. The Internet routes messages from server to server. In contrast, only Google runs the Gmail servers.
Mr. Needleman reported that this type of “federated” set up is tricky to run. In my research, Google’s method for synchronizing across servers makes use of Google-developed technology. I described the core of the approach in my 2005 The Google Legacy available here. My take on the method is that the Google once again has approached a potential deal breaker in a fresh way thus making possible Wave as well as some cross server functionality in the Guha Programmable Search Engine invention and the firm’s forthcoming dataspace services.
Reading about Google is a bit like watching the company in a rear view mirror. I try to look out the windshield but that’s a characteristic of an old, addled goose.
Stephen Arnold, June 4, 2009
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