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June 18, 2003

Groove and Microsoft

Peter O'Kelly:

Microsoft's SharePoint products and technologies... collectively represent the new foundation for Microsoft's collaboration strategy. But Microsoft also has a relationship with another collaboration tool vendor, Groove, and that relationship is worth examining.
The makers of Groove and SharePoint designed them to address different customer needs, and their resulting architectural differences are more complementary than competitive... The exact nature and implications of the Microsoft/Groove relationship are still a bit mysterious, but here are some of the many common elements of the companies' collaboration visions.
A good survey of some of the touch-points. He doesn't go into ehough detail about the awesome practical synergy of the Groove/SharePoint mix (heh, it's true!), nor about how we'll pull InfoPath, Exchange and RTC into a dizzying out-of-the-box realtime KM dance (ohwait, I just made that bit up).