Google bought another company last week. Not DoubleClick, but a Stockholm-based desktop video conferencing outfit called Marratech. Google says it plans just to use the technology internally, but it doesn't take a lot of imagination to see how things could play out if Google decides to productize it. With widely deployed Jabber-based VoIM (Google Talk), tons of bandwidth, and huge data centers, Google desktop conferencing could be a slam-dunk right in the face of Cisco/WebEx. The irony here is that Marratech says it would be cheaper to buy its server software than pay WebEx's per-minute charges. But it's a world turned upside down when when Google talks about selling software and a competitor provides software as a service.

For more about the Marratech acquisition:
- read this article [1] from InfoWorld

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