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In my email
I received my usual dose of e-letters, updates and other trivial mail that
seems to haunt you forever. I actually have one subscription that
the service website says is out of order yet I get the emails from them
daily. Sounds like a new rule for the inbox to me. But I digress...
This editorial was from Mark Jones at InfoWorld
that was passed on to me by the infamous Chaz from up east.
Collaboration technology suddenly finds itself split into two
camps: those who get it and those who don't. Groove gets it,
IBM Lotus gets it, Sun Microsystems is trying to prove that
it gets it, but Microsoft is off with the pixies.
My reasoning is pretty straight forward. A company gets it if
it meets two requirements for collaboration platforms: dead
easy to use and widely available.
So does everyone think that Groove
and Lotus
get it? Both are widely available in some essence. Groove has
had a free version that had most of the functionality of the paid version.
Now they just have 'preview' for 90 days. Lotus, well Lotus has never
been free, but widely available yes. NO NO NO I am not saying
that Lotus should be free for all of you that just jumped on the train
in the wrong direction. I am referring to how each of these two makes
itself a collaborative technology.
Lotus has certifiers, cross-certificates and
other Internet cert ability to let you collaborate securely. Even
SSL of course. Groove on the other hand is client driven but gives
the awareness and other features after everyone installs some software
instead of a browser. Here
was someone that used to think YahooGroups was awesome (free in nature
but widely available through the web browser)until they discovered Groove
2.5 and what it could do. It goes on to state "Groove provides
a whole new way of collaborating on-line, while providing the best ideas,
features and facilities one could have ever hoped for."
I know I just rambled on and on, I should stop
for some air and comments. Hmm, maybe this blog thingy will be a
new medium in collaboration. A simple search of blogs and bam, there
is info. Of course I wouldn't let certain people upload and share
files on my servers, LOL
Comments please??
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On Wednesday, April 23rd, 2003 by Chris Miller
