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Two years ago Microsoft acquired a small software company that provided collaboration software for ad hoc work groups. Groove Networks (http://www.groove.net) was founded in 1997 by Ray Ozzie, who is

By Paul Rolich | Updated on April 30, 2007

Two years ago Microsoft acquired a small software company that provided collaboration software for ad hoc work groups. Groove Networks (http://www.groove.net) was founded in 1997 by Ray Ozzie, who is best known as the creator of Lotus Notes. The fact he created Notes may unfairly scare some people off. “I hate Notes” is an oft-repeated mantra, which may or may not be deserved and which I will refrain from addressing. The plain fact is Groove (or Groove Virtual Office or Groove Workspace) is a peer-to-peer collaboration product that is very cool and very easy to use.

Being acquired by Microsoft may or may not be a good thing for the product or the firm being acquired. Microsoft often acquires products just so it can eliminate the competition (and the product). Some products fare better. Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) was acquired in 2001 as a product named Resolution 4 from NCompass Labs. MCMS 2001 was simply a rebranding of Resolution 4. MCMS 2002 did nothing more than apply a .NET wrapper around the product.

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