August 22, 2005
by Melanie Turek

Not surprisingly, as collaboration applications are maturing, they’re also literally getting bigger—stuffed with more features and functionality, integrated with complementary products, and backed by vendors that are acquiring or partnering with other vendors, or simply snagging talent from the competition and relying on it to help build out their brand. Such consolidation and convergence often allow users to get all (or at least most of) their collaboration needs met from a single source. The result is sometimes valuable and sometimes not, but it’s almost always interesting. And these days, it’s happening almost weekly.