Seems like Google keeps it’s promise and will not let wave users stand out in the cold.

According to this post on the google wave blog, google will release even more code to waveprotocol.org. This will allow everyone to install a fully usable google wave application stack consisting of the performant google wave realtime server as well as a fully-featured web frontend for realtime collaborations.

I found this bit very interesting:

a persistent wave store and search implementation for the server (building on contributed patches to implement a MongoDB store)

Very nice to see a really large open source project starting to use MongoDB, a very nice and stable blend of the best features of document databases and relational dbms.

Sadly Google yesterday decided to stop developing google wave. They at least plan on keeping the service running till the end of this year and want to develop some tools to export your existing waves.

Sad news as google wave always seemed like a pretty useful realtime collaboration service to me. Still a lot of wave’s features are getting recycled in other google services like doc, and maybe some opensource project pics up the pieces and starts a free wave.

Read the whole announcement here.