Tuesday, April 23, 2002

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Alexandre Schoch announces on Groovelog that he has started a new Stress Testing Space for Groove 2.0 anyone interested can contact him by Groove's IM to receive an invitation. Count me in. The past Stress Testing Spaces were very crowded 130+ and revealed some important issues. It would be very interesting to compare the old results to this new space.

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Hugh Pyle: I've sometimes wondered about the inspiration behind Groove's superb logo. At last the truth can be told!. (Thanks, Ed!)

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Tim has added a cool feature to our CADviewer for Groove 2.0. A new tab is automatically generated for each saved view in the CADdrawing.  Autocads Paperspace, Modelspace and Xrefs and are now supported. The really nice thing of the CADviewer in Groove is the collaborative viewing feature. Multiple spacemembers can zoom and pan together through all the drawings in the space showing the same details in realtime. All files are stored locally so collaborative viewing is very fast.

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Article in Infoconomy on the use of Groove at GlaxoSmithKline. "With Lotus Notes, we would need to use an application service provider (ASP) or third-party to provide Notes software to our partners. All the data would then be replicated through this third-party, a process that is costly and takes a few days to set up." says Wood. In contrast, managers using the Groove platform simply need to run a 20MB software client on each user's PC; collaborative data is then synchronised and replicated in real-time across the network. External partners need only to download the client and no third-party is involved. .