Microsoft gets Groove
Posted on March 10, 2005
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It seems that Microsoft is acquiring Groove, the groupware startup founded by Ray Ozzie, creator of Lotus Notes.
Lotus Notes was (is?) an insanely popular application and really the only enterprise scale option in that field. Despite that people seem to hate it (and apparently not without cause; witness Damien Katz’s tale of rewriting the Formula Engine in his youth for insight into Notes’ internals). Groove is Ozzie’s attempt to fix all that was wrong with Notes and provide a mature ‘internet-enabled by default’ groupware app. From most accounts he’s been successful.
It will be interesting to see if and how Microsoft can integrate this into Sharepoint, Project, Outlook, etc.
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