This weekend, Google announced the buyout AppJet. A company well-known for developing EtherPad, a word processor online that include dominant tools in the context of collaboration in actual time. A Start-Up 5 officiate in which engineers will join very soon the development team of Google Wave, the new collaborative platform for Google based on e-mail and instant messaging.

Aaron Iba, CEO of AppJet, who is also a former engineer at Google, said on his blog that EtherPad will remain online until March 31, 2010; although some new restrictions will make their appearance. This includes the creation of shared documents available publicly. As of March 31, migration technologies EtherPad to Google's servers and start all data users of the service will be destroyed in the process.

Therefore the latter, whether private or professional users free or paid, must absoulment retrieve all their documents before that date. Note also that for the last 4 months of service, all have access to the full version to archive its records in a file. Zip download. Obviously, it is expected that collaborative technologies to AppJet are also rapidly integrated into Google Docs.