Well, I got strong-armed by my management to do a very spendy implementation of Groove on our enterprise network and let me just say these things.
Groove is fat fat fat bugggy program (Go figure that MS would aqcuire something with that footprint). It isn't a web based or server based application it is indeed a p2p application (though there are backend servers that handle certificates and mediate communication for clients that are behind NAT and firewalls). There always seems to be a new release of the software that will "fix" things.
The one thing that does impress me is that it does have a very interesting built in PKI architecture that is completely transparent to the user. All commo is encrypted and all data is encrypted on the drive. How well is this done? Well, seeing as how there are new releases and patches every few weeks, it's anybodys' guess.
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It's only a matter of time before we'll need to pull out the the Voigt-Kampff machine to tell them apart from us soylent-green folks.
why is this news? For real.
Well, I got strong-armed by my management to do a very spendy implementation of Groove on our enterprise network and let me just say these things.
Groove is fat fat fat bugggy program (Go figure that MS would aqcuire something with that footprint). It isn't a web based or server based application it is indeed a p2p application (though there are backend servers that handle certificates and mediate communication for clients that are behind NAT and firewalls). There always seems to be a new release of the software that will "fix" things.
The one thing that does impress me is that it does have a very interesting built in PKI architecture that is completely transparent to the user. All commo is encrypted and all data is encrypted on the drive. How well is this done? Well, seeing as how there are new releases and patches every few weeks, it's anybodys' guess.
perhaps there was a mole