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Groove Virtual Office is a proprietary peer-to-peer software package aimed at the enterprise. Its acquisition by Microsoft was announced in March 2005. Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Groove (software). ... Proprietary software is a term used to describe software designed, coded, and owned by a defined person, organization or group of organizations. ... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the worlds largest software company, with over 50,000 employees in various countries as of May 2004. ... March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

Groove workspaces

On its most basic level, Groove is desktop software designed to facilitate collaboration and communication among small groups. It is a Windows-based commercial product invented by Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie (former CEO of Iris Associates). A key concept in the Groove paradigm is the shared workspace. A Groove user creates a workspace and then invites other people into it. Each person who responds to an invitation becomes a member of that workspace and is sent a copy that is installed on his or her hard drive. All data is encrypted both on disk and over the network, with each workspace having a unique set of cryptographic keys. This local copy avoids the physical distance between the user and his data. In other words, a workspace is the private virtual location where users who are members interact and collaborate. From that moment on, Groove keeps all the copies synchronized via the Internet or the corporate network. When any one member makes a change to the space, that change is sent to all copies for update. If that member is offline at the time the change is made, the change is queued and synchronized to other workspace members when the member comes back online (see horizon of connectivity). Via the workspace, one or more peers (members) now have a context for collaboration. Collaboration, literally, consists of working together with one or more others. ... Communication is the process of exchanging information usually via a common system of symbols. ... IBM Lotus Notes 6. ... Ray Ozzie (born November 20, 1955) is an innovative and influential American computer programmer who is best known for writing the first versions of Lotus Notes software, later bought by IBM. In more recent times Ozzie has been working on a project to help people work effectively in groups, called... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... Iris Associates was a software development company founded in Littleton, Massachusetts on December 7th, 1984 by Ray Ozzie, specifically to build the software ultimately known as Lotus Notes. ... Synchronization is coordination with respect to time. ... Within most client-server architectures, a horizon of connectivity is the boundary that limits access to server-based resources when the client is disconnected from the network. ... A peer group is a group of people of approximately the same age, social status, and interests. ... ConTEXT is a freeware text editor directed at programmers. ...

Collaboration tools

Groove's basic set of services (including always-on security, reliable messaging, store-and-forward delivery, firewall/NAT transparency, ad hoc group formation, and change notification) may be customized with tools. Tools are mini-applications that rely on Groove's underlying functionality to disseminate and synchronize their contents with other members' copies of the workspace. Groove provides many tools that can be used in the workspaces you create in order to customize the functionality of each space (for example, calendar, discussion, file sharing, outliner, pictures, notepad, sketchpad, Web browser, etc.). After a member creates the workspace, the tools that members use in the space drive the nature of the person-to-person collaboration that ensues. Users are able to add and remove tools at any time in order to adapt to evolving requirements. Security is being free from danger. ... A screenshot of PowWow, one of the first instant messengers with a graphical user interface An instant messenger is a client which allows instant text communication between two or more people through a network such as the Internet. ... Store and forward is a communications technique in which messages are sent to a intermediate station where they are kept and sent at a later time to the final destination or to another intermediate station. ... In computing, a firewall is a piece of hardware and/or software which functions in a networked environment to prevent some communications forbidden by the security policy, analogous to the function of firewalls in building construction. ... Nat can stand for more than one thing: NAT is an acronym for Network Address Translation nat is a form of classical music played in Manipur See also: Nat Adderley Nat King Cole This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... A calendar is a system for naming periods of time, typically days. ... Debate is a formalized system of (usually) logical argument. ... File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ... An outliner is a special text editor that allows the grouping of text in sections that are organized in a tree (hierarchy) of concepts, an outline. ... Notepad is a simple text editor included with Microsoft Windows. ... Sketchpad was a revolutionary computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis. ... A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with HTML documents hosted by web servers or held in a file system. ...

Groove is only available for Microsoft Windows, however many of the concepts are similar to Lotus Notes. // Microsoft Windows is a range of operating environments for personal computers and servers. ... IBM Lotus Notes 6. ...

External links

• Groove homepage
• Groove weblog
• Microsoft press release on Groove acquisition
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