Using SpotDealmaker and Groove, individual trading partners conduct instantaneous, simultaneous, bilateral transactions with each other on a direct, person-to-person basis. Together Netrana and Groove support the exchange of highly structured business transaction messages (negotiations, RFQs, RFPs, etc.) without central control of the process.
Pundits are now watching carefully to see whether Groove's technology will give Microsoft something it has never really had--a viable groupware/collaboration product that can compete head-on with Lotus Notes and Domino.
