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The team behind it was hired by Twitter. Not for the technology, it was purely a talent grab.
The choice to shut it down and bury the tech seems a weird route to take by Twitter. What could possibly be the upside if they were only interested in the talent anyway?!
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EditGrid is still around and free and unlike Google Spreadsheet's broken importXML function (see: http://goo.gl/fWYDi ) it has a web_xpath function that mostly works. Also worth noting DabbleDB is one of the (few?) relatively well-known projects implemented in Squeak/Seaside as discussed here: http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&t...
I am very glad they got Seaside out before the sale: it has really helped to revitalize Smalltalk.
I last used WizeHive which was ok-ish
It would be better for startups in general if it was customary to open-source your solution if you shut down.
#dickbar, the API/client controversy, and shutting down DabbleDB. Not sure if I've seen one company burn through as much goodwill in one week as Twitter just did.
The Dabble people themselves practically announced that they'd be doing this a year ago. They said they'd give notice. They gave notice. What do you want from them?
It would be better for startups in general if it was customary to open-source your solution if you shut down.
The cost of entry on the market for a SaaS application is so low now, that companies start to ask more and more such kind of insurance.
For some other services, code in escrow could also be a good idea, but when not open sourced from the start, closed source code is often hard to bring back to life as an open source project. Sometimes it works well, for example with Blender.
Indefero is a code hosting/project management software: http://www.indefero.net
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Good for the startup community by reducing early-adopter fear of startups going under.
But possibly bad for the community in that it pretty much removes the possibility of getting bought by a company that wants your talent/customer base more than they want your product.
Unless they're just removing a competitor, but if that's the case they could always violate the custom.