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Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks

Posted by samzenpus on from the the-collective-grows dept.

namalc writes "In a huge shot across the groupware bow, Microsoft announced today that it would acquire Groove Networks, and Ray Ozzie, the founder of Groove, would become Microsoft CTO. Ray Ozzie, the creator of Lotus Notes, had positioned Groove to straddle both the IBM/Lotus and Microsoft worlds. It will be interesting to see what direction Groove takes now."

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  1. my guess by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mitch Kapor isn't a happy man right now.

  2. Re:Hope springs eternal! by IgnoramusMaximus · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Now perhaps we can dump the eternally crappy Lotus Notes here at the office in favor of something a bit more full featured.

    Be careful. This is Slashdot. Most of the mods here havn't seen LotusNotes and probably think its a fancy notepad. And to them every software developer is a genius. I just got troll-rated down the thread for saying negative things about this abomniation...

  3. Let's hear it for stale Microsoft Bob jokes by bonch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How many people this day and age outside of this site even know what Microsoft Bob is? It was an expansion shell on top of Windows 3.1 that came out 11 years ago for kiosks and some home users. Jesus, get over it!

    Same with Clippy, who I haven't seen in a default install in five years. Whenever I did see him all those years ago, I magically clicked the right mouse button and selected "Hide." He never returned.