Wednesday, February 19, 2003

Making Groove the lead dog (1)  I picked up this trail from Hugh Pyle's weblog. Hugh, as you know, is one of the Wizards of Beverly. Robert Faletra in CRN [02.14.03] purports "making Groove the lead dog" in Microsoft's Real Time Collaboration (RTC) strategy in light of Microsoft's purchase of PlaceWare. He puts the ubiquitions MS Office as the core competitive advantage that MS can leverage. Pimm Fox in ComputerWorld [02.10.03] sees it differently - he views the PlaceWare acquisition still falls short in the MS RTC strategy. While the desktop is one side of the Enterprise System coin, the other side is simply, the *Enterprise Application - the ERPs, the CRMs, DB2/Oracle apps, CICS (many of those still linger) et al. Mr. Fox skirted on this crucial point but with no elaboration - it's the 'building links' to the *EA that defines the other side of RTC. 8:27:52 AM