The Register® — Biting the hand that feeds IT

Google draws in iRows

Whatever floats your boat

Free whitepaper – Capacity management in virtual infrastructures

Google quietly snaffled up Israeli online spreadsheet vendor iRows earlier this week.

The founders of the firm posted a note on their blog this week saying the were joining Google.

“We launched iRows in January, and will shut it down on 31-Dec-2006. This has been a very busy year for us,” they said. Back in September, the founders admitted that “We think we have a good product, many users, some of use the product extensively. But (and this is a big but) it is not generating enough money to keep us alive.”

Google already has its own word processor and spreadsheet offering. Presumably, the search giant feels the addition of iRows will make for a stronger product. Afterall, no-one wants a spreadsheet without rows.

iRows is not accepting new customers and existing users will have to move their data to Google’s spreadsheet.®

Free whitepaper – The top 5 server monitoring battles

Don’t Miss

Microsoft Office logoOffice 2010 fights Google with SharePoint bloat

Review Decent upgrade gets out of shape

Ubuntu teaser Ubuntu's Karmic Koala bares fangs at Windows 7

Review Shuttleworthian scrap

AppleChange your views: OS X tags exploited

Mac Secrets Apple windows insider

MicrosoftMicrosoft 'Dallas' muscles Google data crusade

PDC Crunches Red Planet