TechCrunch explains the video conferencing software package from Marratech. Google acquired the Swedish startup for an undisclosed price this week.
Marratech is in the e-meeting space, explains Michael Arrington. It competes with WebEx, which Cisco just bought for $3.2 billion. Users are able to communicate via text chat, VOIP and video, and share applications in a virtual meeting.
Their service requires a download. The Windows version of the software is 31 MB; the Mac version is just 9 MB. Google already has free GTalk, Desktop and Toolbar applications.
Land Warrior lives! Maybe Google should buy General Dynamics next.
[...] bought Marratech, one of the few cross-platform e-meeting solutions I knew about. I can only hope it [...]
Left by Stuff That Has Been Piling Up on April 24th, 2007