March 13, 2006 Linux Web Conferencing: Share And Share Alike? Workspot Woes By Howard Wen Courtesy of Page 5 of 5 More Linux Support Brings More Customers If Marratech's experience shows the potential upside for Linux-friendly Web conferencing products -- and by extension, for other types of business software featuring desktop Linux support -- another group's experiences illustrate the potential risks. Workspot, a Java-based Web conferencing package built specifically for the desktop Linux platform, was started back in 1999 as a non-profit software development effort. Workspot, which was subsequently released on other platforms besides Linux, is a relatively mature and thoroughly-tested product that has been around longer than many of its competitors. Today, however, Workspot is not under active development, and a hosted version of the product is closed to the public due to a lack of corporate sponsorship or other sources of financial support. "Big companies, without any Linux product, shut us out of deals with other big companies. We don't even have enough money to keep working machines anymore, despite often massive interest in our project," claims Greg Bryant, the director of Workspot. "If anyone is able to support our non-profit efforts, please contact us. We have the open source conferencing system, but we need help." E-mail This Story Print This Story Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Get the latest Messaging news, product info, and trends every week.			Pump Up the Online Jam Review: Office Live Beta Puts SOHOs Online Analysis: AOL Teams With WebEx For Enterprise IM Office 2007 To Feature New Workflow, Collaboration Tools Yahoo Adds Features To Firefox Toolbar Gordano Updates Messaging Suite With SNMP Links     Messaging Pipeline's Main RSS Feed     Messaging Pipeline's Blog RSS Feed Editorial and vendor perspectives The Six Flavors Of Windows Vista Microsoft plans to release a full six-pack of Vista versions, one for every taste. Which Vista will be right for you? Hope is Not Enough When It Comes To Compliance Three Ways To Authenticate E-Mail And Stop Spam Wikis In The Workplace Review: Google Desktop 3 Vendors are now talking about how collaboration can be improved by integrating video with messaging applications. They're even talking about adding live TV to mobile phones. How far do you go before it becomes a bandwidth and business productivity drain? Video is a great idea     13% Video is fine but there needs to be size limits     25% It's never used for anything really productive     38% I draw the line at live TV     25% In search of messaging products? Check out our brand new Product Finder for a directory of groupware and collaboration tools, security products, archiving solutions, and more.