New Collaborative Technologies Not-All-That-New The messaging industry is highly fragmented but includes very sizable markets such as Email Security (projected at $6.7Bn by 2013, E-mail Security Market, 2009-2013, The Radicati Group, 2009 ) & Instant Messaging (forecasted at over $12Bn by 2013, Mobile Messaging Futures 2009-2013, Telecoms Market Research, 2008 ). A new, possibly disruptive, class of messaging platform is emerging and many are wondering how it might affect the market size from an investment standpoint. These platforms are known as collaborative messaging which are cross-breed of email, IMing and real time interaction with others, the poster-child being Google Wave. The advent of collaborative technologies has given new dimensions to real-time productivity and communications for users worldwide. This segment of technology includes platforms like Etherpad, Shareflow, Microsoft SharePoint & Google Wave which allow multiple levels of interaction on a real-ti