Thursday, May 01, 2003

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John Schull : Can someone compare Hydra/iStorm to Groove ?

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Joel Orr's ExtranetNews makes a comparison between Kubi and Groove You can't avoid comparing Groove and Kubi. Groove's been around much longer, and so is more highly refined. It has many more collaborative features—"tools" you can add to shared spaces—than Kubi, but Kubi has all the essential ones (and is sure to add more over time). Groove has "differencing"; only actual differences are replicated to shared-space members, not entire documents, as in Kubi Client; with big documents, this represents a major performance advantage. It has automatic "versioning," which must be done manually in Kubi. Kubi Client's killer advantage is that it lives inside of Outlook or Notes. You don't switch apps to use it, when you are in email. You don't maintain multiple calendars or address books, or have to import or export them.