Tuesday, August 13, 2002

TogetherSoft, which offers the ControlCenter Java programming environment, has purchased Visual Studio from WebGain, which closed in June. The software includes Visual Cafe, and the most likely result is that Studio's best features will find their way into ControlCenter while Studio itself is mothballed. The only WebGain product that hasn't found a new home is the modeling tool Application Composer. [Workbench] I told you so, Jeff K! (lets see if he is reading my blog as he says) -)))   1:31:02 PM

Interview: Jeff Raikes outlines the future role of Office [IDG InfoWorld] Office's future seems to have a lot of Groove in it: Raikes: We have been on the other side of the fence at times, but we've always respected and admired [Groove Networks founder] Ray [Ozzie]'s vision and technical ability. He has had a great impact on us. He sat in on some of our file storage or unified storage discussions and provided us [with] good feedback for some of the things in the .Net platform. The thing that I think customers are fascinated by with Groove today is the fact that you can do peer-to-peer collaboration, you can do it offline, you can do it through the firewall. InfoWorld: So you can collaborate across an enterprise domain? Raikes: Right. SharePoint Team Services has some great capabilities but [it] is very much focused within your corporate intranet and online. So with Groove you can extend SharePoint Team Services sites to go through the firewall and to be offline. So there's some very nice synergy there. 1:27:58 PM

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