1. Groove never acquired presence technology from anyone. It uses its own protocols for presence and awareness, Device Presence Protocol (DPP). They have recently announced support for Jabber clients via an XMPP Proxy. This is worth a read: http://compnetworking.about.com/library/weekly/aa1 03100c.htm
2. Groove integrates into both Lotus Notes and Outlook mail clients.
3. Groove publishes to Sharepoint natively, but the company also offers an Enterprise Data Bridge, a piece of middleware that integrates Groove spaces with systems such as Oracle, SAP, Lotus Notes, Exchange, and most other flavors of RDBMS. There have also been prototype integrations done with MySQL and Zope/Plone.
4. Although Groove itself is written in C++/COM, its collaboration services are exposed via XML web services, which are the standard means of integrating external components with Groove. The development kit on their website includes sample code in Perl.
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1. Groove never acquired presence technology from anyone. It uses its own protocols for presence and awareness, Device Presence Protocol (DPP). They have recently announced support for Jabber clients via an XMPP Proxy. This is worth a read: http://compnetworking.about.com/library/weekly/aa1 03100c.htm
2. Groove integrates into both Lotus Notes and Outlook mail clients.
3. Groove publishes to Sharepoint natively, but the company also offers an Enterprise Data Bridge, a piece of middleware that integrates Groove spaces with systems such as Oracle, SAP, Lotus Notes, Exchange, and most other flavors of RDBMS. There have also been prototype integrations done with MySQL and Zope/Plone.
4. Although Groove itself is written in C++/COM, its collaboration services are exposed via XML web services, which are the standard means of integrating external components with Groove. The development kit on their website includes sample code in Perl.