Friday, February 28, 2003

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I'm having a real hard time understanding the sudden price increase by Groove for non-US customers. I cannot find any other examples of companies who charge different amounts for a downloadable product and even if there are, i think a overnight change that creates a 40% disparity for the normal version (49$-69$) and a 25% for the professional version (149$-189$)  is not going to help the adoption of Groove outside the US but instead frustate it severely. So what's the deal here ? Why should a small company in Holland or China interested in the starterkit for Small businesses pay 2315$ compared to a 1795$ for a US customer. That's a 500$ difference for exactly the same 10 license-keys ordered by credit card and downloaded via the web. I don't see it and haven't heard any "understandable" explanation yet. Please somebody help me out here.....

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Tim Knip : After checking the Groove Access Point for remote access to my computer running Groove Workspace resolved the last missing link: exposing a Web Service for a custom Groove Tool. This means that any Groove tool can be queried from a remote location (from your PocketPC for example). Cool Tim !! Step by step we are collecting all the pieces of the puzzle we are working on. Next step: Flash and GWS for graphical input and visualisation of complex data.

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ZDNet : Collaboration : Real time, real value ? Creating too much of a formal environment can stifle team dynamics, Hayward said. That's a key point. The tools may be very capable, but creating an environment that motivates people to collaborate is the challenge. It means the difference between teams that succeed and those that fail.

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Blaine Anderson wrote a very useful tutorial for developers who are interested in creating a Groovetool using .NET

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Carlos Araujo is back with a Brazilian Groove Weblog using our Bloggertool.