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Friday, March 11, 2005

Microsoft and Groove

David Coleman's Collaborative Strategies arrived in the inbox this morning with the news of Microsoft's acquisition of Groove. The commentary is very good. Lots to think about. Actually it makes me think of meetings at Microsoft I sat through in 1995/1996 while I was still in Professional Services at Digital Equipment Corporation, listening to MS plans for collaboration and coming away quite unconvinced. Sharepoint V1 was awful, but I was impressed with V2 when I worked with a client with a year-long pilot of it last year.

It will be a challenge to work with my clients on collaboration software strategy and pilots over the next year as the implications of this sort out. But, at least it appears that Microsoft has finally put someone in place who gets it: Ray Ozzie will be their CTO.

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