SB Chatterjee : Microsoft and Lotus shoot it out in the enterprise collaboration market. Microsoft has big plans for SharePoint - "The plan for SharePoint is that it will be incorporated ultimately into the Windows environment.” That should make the Groove integration with SharePoint much tighter.
By participant request, the KM Cluster uses Groove 2.1 for event collaboration, content management, information access and electronic community.
Groove's peer-to-peer architecture eliminates many of the headaches of setting up a secure, server-based collaboration application, so users don't have to worry about synchronizing data and checking documents in and out
