Most significantly, perhaps, were two mergers and acquisitions that took place recently. PlaceWare has seen a steady increase in the use of its MyPlaceWare service. In this article I will focus on the reasons behind and the significance of these two deals, and I also will discuss some of the different segments of the Web conferencing market and address some of the obstacles that must be conquered if it is to reach market expectations. Additionally, I will compare and contrast conference experiences offered by some of the leading providers and take a glimpse at some coming developments in the Web conferencing space. Meetings, which can and often are scheduled on an ad hoc basis, are smaller, collaborative-type get togethers which feature shared interactivity.
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Designed for product demos and content development. Frost and Sullivan estimates that in 1999, approximately 74 percent of Web conferencing end users were using the services for presentation or large event purposes and the remaining 26 percent were using them for collaboration or small meeting purposes. This strengthens our leadership in the large events space which has been the overwhelming need in the market place. We had a shared vision about what the next set of features were. Our product outlooks were extremely similar in terms of new feature sets and functionality.