Peer-to-Peer for Business Distributed Computer Hits Mainstream Byron Alley
Groove Networks will be one of the first companies to seriously take the peer-to-peer networking explosion to business. The company has introduced a "software platform" for general peer-to-peer networking. Groove focuses on business applications for collaboration over the Internet, using standards such as XML and Microsoft COM.
"We have been in stealth mode for three years, so we simply did not adhere to any rigid standards," Ozzie said. "We just went back and forth to try to make it simple for people to collaborate on the Web in small groups. And we certainly are not going to dictate our ways to standards bodies like W3C. We will work with them and adhere to their proposed standards."
