Google is on a belated New Year’s solvent kick that will see the search giant closing some services alike its Google Message Continuity (GMS) email disaster recovery product and open-source Google Sky Mapping while collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University to develop it for pupil projects.
“As we psyche into 2012, we’ve been sticking to some old resolutions the need to focus on building amazing productions that millions of people love to utilisation every day,” Dave Girouard, Google’s vice chair of product management, indited Friday on the company’s official blog. “That means taking a hard feeling at products that replicate other features, haven’t achieved the promise we received hoped for or can’t be properly integrated into the overall Google experience.”
Girouard enunciated the enterprise-targeted GMS product, which backs up emails sent and received via on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers, was being phased out because Google has “decided to focus our efforts” on disaster recovery solutions built into Google Apps. Current customers will exist able to keep utilizing GMC for the duration of their contracts, however.
Other Google products being phased away in 2012 include the Needlebase data management, platform, which goes drear on June 1, though it might be integrated into other platforms, the Picnik online exposure editor (paid members will stimulate a refund “in the coming weeks,” according to Girouard), the Social Graph API, which is getting closed down on April 20 because it “isn’t experiencing the form of adoption we’d like,” and the Urchin online web analytics platform which has been superseded by Google Analytics and will exist closed by March.
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