Monday, November 18, 2002

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CRN puts Ray Ozzie on their list of the top 25 of most influential CEO's "Ozzie has demonstrated incredible foresight about elegant architecture. %85 Client/server was crude compared with Notes/Domino, and Web services are crude compared with Groove. He has the vision and executes on it to produce highly reliable and productive software," says Dana Gardner, an analyst at Aberdeen Group who says he uses Groove to chat and share documents and photos with his extended family.

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Boston Globe reports on the Tablet PC and has Matt Pope showcasing some scenario's ''The idea is that our users can capture notes, highlight images, and in general use digital ink to communicate within our Groove Workspace,'' Pope said as he started up a laptop and a Tablet next to each other on a conference table. Then he wrote handwritten notes and doodled on the Tablet; they appeared seconds later on the laptop screen. Replies typed into the laptop's version of Groove (with no Digital Ink support) appeared on the Tablet as text. After a few exchanges, the chat windows in both computers alternated between computer text and handwritten notes.