Pretty simple really. Wave had 60+ engineers assigned. If you assume each engineer costs somewhere between 100k and 250k total spend (salary, office space, airfares, accom, shares, ...), then you are looking at somewhere between $6M and $20M a year in project cost. Plus servers, bandwidth, etc, etc.
To justify that number takes a serious uptake of usage. As the press release says, Wave wasn't seeing the uptake expected. So it got killed, and the engineers will be moved on to other projects that are justifying their cap ex spend. hth, brett On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:23 AM, -TJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Wait... > What's going on?!?!?!?!? > > > > GOOGLE WAVE IS GOING DOWN???? > GOOGLE IS DUMPING GOOGLE WAVE!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?! > WHAT???????????????????????????? > I DON'T GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN?????????????????? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Wave API" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-wave-api%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en. > > -- Brett Morgan http://www.google.com/profiles/brett.morgan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en.
