I hope the contractor that won the bid gets sued into oblivion for delivering this piece of shit. Further, I would hope that no one ever does business with them again.
IMO Google wants to gauge developer interest before they sink $10+ million Google bucks into this project. You see Google shutting down side projects even now (Google Reader was just recently in the news) and I think this is pretty indicative that they don't want to be as "wasteful" in projects...
I have the same concern since we use Webex. Apparently Cisco has an ActiveX installer which you can install but it's a convoluted process:
https://support.webex.com/MyAccountWeb/knowledgeBase.do?articleId=WBX21270
Basically, browse to https://YOURSITE.webex.com and then click on Support >...
We have 2 DSL lines here at work with a load balancer. On the [H] forums I'm frequently logged out (maybe every couple page clicks inside Genmay). Various 'Whats my IP' websites have reported 2 IP's, which represent our 2 DSL lines. I think webhosts are seeing traffic coming from 2 IP's and...
Our parent company uses dropbox and I cringed when I saw the CEO log in to show us something during a meeting. I don't think they realize the risk they are taking.
Also, think of it like this: google is buying 0-day exploits instead of letting that info get into the hands of black hats and nefarious organizations.