Google Wave won't be quick hit in the enterprise, analysts say

From InfoWorld: Google may hope that the widespread release of Google Wave serves as a new entry into the enterprise, but some analysts don't expect that businesses will rush to adopt it.

The company announced at its I/O developer conference Wednesday that the Google Wave collaboration and communication tool is now available to everyone as part of the hosted Google Apps tool suite.

The Web-based Google Wave application is designed to offer a variety of tools, such as email, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, multimedia management and document sharing in a social networking-like system.

Analysts have called Google Wave the latest, and perhaps the most comprehensive, entrant into a burgeoning social networking business.

The Google Wave offering was first announced at the May, 2009, Google developer conference and then rolled out to 100,000 beta users late last September.

Though some analysts are impressed with the product, it's not expected to quickly attract the attention of corporate IT executives.

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