The wiki wars

January 17, 2005 | Matt Marshall | Comments | |

Palo Alto wiki company JotSpot leaked news today that it had signed up Walt Disney as a paying customer, stealing it away from its Palo Alto competitor, Socialtext. Disney is JotSpot’s first major customer. Though Socialtext’s Ross Mayfield doesn’t seem fazed.

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  • Steve Irwin
    It seems that Joe Krause should have signed a non-disclosure before looking at the Socialtext deal, at the minimum, and if he were a part of a larger venture group, then both should be liable for non-sanctioned disclosure and predatory practices.

    It really goes to the core of VC ethics, unless that's an oxymoron nowdays.

    ST Irwin
  • Sometimes I am wondering why open source software does not get mentioned more by the press. Socialtext and JotSpot are both entering the space where the open source TWiki is already for a number of years -- a Wiki as an application platform.

    TWiki is a mature Wiki, has a large number of Plugins and extensions, has a large and loyal userbase, and has an active developers community on http://twiki.org/. And if you read the success stories you find one of Disney too.