Google Cuts Off Marratech
Rikard Stenberg, one of the Marratech guys who came over to Google when their company was acquired in April, said on a forum posting that Google has no plans to continue developing the software. Google bought the product, took over the core team, and will not be developing the Marratech products past the current release. Shame, because if the product was good enough for Google to want it, maybe they could have had a good software product for the rest of us.
What has happened is that Google has bought the product (the Marratech client and server software) and the rights to that plus has taken over the core team of old Marratech. So there will be no further development of the “old Marratech” products and the 6.1 / 3.5 release will be the last.
What will happen with the products under Google wings then? Well, time will tell - there are no further information available at this point.
Regards,
/Rikard Stenberg, ex. Marratech, now @ Google…
But google did specifically state that they would be using it for internal purposes only. Here is the blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/collaborating-with-marratech.html
They even clarified in the post that they were only acquiring the software not the company. What’s wrong if they want to do that? They did not make any promises of releasing it to the public.
Comment by or | August 21, 2007
Nothing wrong with that - Google will develop a new product using the ex-Marratech development team that will be used internally first and then maybe added to Google Apps.
The resellers have been defrauding customers by keeping quiet about the fact that the Marratech product is dead and will never be updated. Thats whats wrong!
If you’ve bought Marratech recently you should be reaching for your lawyer
Comment by Wayne Kerr | September 2, 2007