[SoftwareMaven]

It could be that there were turf wars involved in this. It is not inconceivable for the Gmail product manager to not want Wave integrated. People switching to Wave could mean the end of his clout in company.

I don't know enough about internal Google to really say whether this is probable or not, but I've worked for companies where that would have been the case.

[roc]

I'd be willing to accept that if we were talking about Microsoft. I thought Google was still better than that?