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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. Re:Pardon my ignorance..... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Groove is an excellent (as of a demo I saw a couple of years ago) integration of pretty much all your collaboration tools.
    Think /. and MS Office, throw in IM, and server storage, and make it work well on crap hardware.
    It's the kind of turn-key integration that will take quite a while longer to realize using FOSS.
    Truly, the pieces are all there, but getting them all to work as smoothly is non-trivial.

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. The New CTO is the big acquisition... by MLopat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While most of you probably don't care much about the products Groove Networks have in their suite, the real story here in Microsoft acquiring a new CTO. This man has an impressive track record in the technology field. He is responsible for the creation of Lotus Notes, a technology that Microsoft Exchange is just starting to catch up to both in features and install base. 100 Million people use his technology worldwide. He is also rated among the top five developers of the century.

    This article has more to do with Microsoft continuing to build an impressive array of innovators and visionaries to carry the company for another 20 years. If they happen to integrate a few of his company's technologies into the current Office suite, that's just a bonus.