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Microsoft To Buy Groove Networks
Martin LaMonica
Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie, chief technology officer at the software giant.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Microsoft said it will incorporate Groove's "virtual office" collaboration software into its Office line of desktop productivity applications. Ozzie, the inventor of Lotus Notes and a collaboration guru, will report to Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect.
Microsoft was an investor in Groove, which has closely tied its collaboration software to Windows and other Microsoft products.
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Not a big surprise as M$ was one of their main investors but a definite sign anyway of p2p technology hitting the corporate mainstream. Technically Groove falls into the same generic category of p2p based virtual private networks as WASTE, but don't expect the media industry to attack these 'darknets' - Bertelsmann is one of the corporations already happily using it.
Thanks for the WiR, Mr. Spratts.
- tg
