Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Groove Virtual Office


Smarter ways to work..that is all about the groove virtual office network. It seems to be a very powerful tool. Often people at work places have problems communicating each other, people find it difficult to keep update of each other's work. If more then 2 people are developing software, it's nightmare to get synchronized. Sending large files in e-mails is a headache.

Groove offers all this. It has features of file sharing, project management etc. I haven't tried it out personally as I am not in a software workplace. But, I have gone through all the features. It is recently bought by Microsoft. It offers demo version for 60 days to try it out. Interestingly, the architecture is peer-to-peer. There is no centralized server. Hence, making it more robust and scalable.

Here are some of the useful docs to get a complete picture of its working..
Architecture
Background

And, the main website is
Groove

You have a solution to every problem in this world. Ofcourse, every solution comes with its own problems. And that's why we researchers have a job..:)