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To: JakeStraw who wrote (175)	10/24/2000 6:09:45 PM
From: Probart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 183

Anyone have comments on this P2P move. Is this the next big move? Thanks. Probart Viant Forms Partnership With Groove Networks siliconinvestor.com What is Groove Networks......... read this... quotes.freerealtime.com <<Notable Programmer Makes a Comeback with New Software Release -- 3:09 AM EDT Oct. 24 (The Boston Globe/KRTBN)--BEVERLY, Mass.--For software industry watchers, it's been one of the most intriguing questions of the past three years. What is Ray Ozzie up to? At Lotus Development Corp. during the 1980s, Ozzie developed the concept of "groupware," computer programs that would let teams of people collaborate by using individual computers linked over a network. The result of his brainstorm was Lotus's flagship Notes and Domino products, now used by tens of millions worldwide. Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates, who's been trying to emulate the success of Notes ever since, once called Ozzie one of the world's five best computer programmers. But in 1997, Ozzie left Lotus to strike out on his own. He founded a firm called Groove Networks, set up shop in Beverly, and dropped an iron curtain of secrecy around his new product. Today, that curtain is being lifted. It turns out Ozzie is still working on groupware, but this time with a difference. His new software, called Groove, seeks to combine the power of Lotus Notes with the simplicity and accessibility of the controversial music-sharing program Napster. But Napster didn't exist when Ozzie dreamed up the concept................>>