Wednesday, September 04, 2002

Alexis Smirnov switched from a Blogger account to a Radio Blog. I'm subscribed. Today he writes: Let’s see if I can get it straight. First of all, there’s Groove Platform. 3rd parties can develop applications on it using OEM Kit. Then, there’s Groove Workspace. It is an application that runs on top of Groove Platform, but also allows 3rd parties to extend it by writing Groove Workspace Tools. The best analogy I can find is Windows and Office. Windows is a platform. Office is a Windows application, but you can also extend it by writing Office plug-ins and marcos. Ok, this sounds very very reasonable and healthy. So what’s wrong with Groove’s picture? The priority. Clearly, Groove has made a conscious decision to invest much more in support for developers of Groove Workspace Tools while providing a bare minimum support for Groove Platform developers. Imagine if 95% of MSDN was allocated for information on how to develop Office plug-ins and 5% was given to help out Windows application developers. And you had to "negotiate" with Microsoft to get that 5%! [via Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] [Paresh Suthar's Radio Weblog] 6:05:50 PM

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