Wednesday, September 18, 2002

I met Jeroen Bekker yesterday while walking down one of the Groove hallways - what a pleasant surprise. 11:05:13 AM    comment [] Trade group: P2P not illegal nor immoral "The entire theme of the copyright community is that downloading off the Web is both illegal and immoral," Shapiro said, according to the text of his speech. "It is neither." 11:02:07 AM    comment [] Longhorn vs. Groove Platform, Next Office vs. Groove Desktop. What this all means for Groove? It will soon have competition - Windows. That's... serious competition. (Strictly speaking, Groove's basic productivity tools like calendar, project management kind-of competes with Office, but Groove's integration with Office will likely render those tools irrelevant for Office users).  The good news is Longhorn is far away, so Groove still has time to mature its platform and get good client base.  The other good news is, Windows isn't after everything that Groove stands for. Groove has three crown jewels in its crown: Moving data cross-enterprise. Working online/offline transparently. Lastly, enabling collaboration features deep inside desktop applications. Windows Inc. wants the first two. The last one is still undisputed and has to be protected at all costs. So in order to sustain the business over the long term, Groove has to excel in enabling collaboration of desktop applications well beyond file sharing, well beyound Groove Desktop. This is Groove's chance to keep being one step ahead of its competitors. [via Alexis Smirnov's Weblog] 11:01:01 AM    comment []

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