I would be interested to know what people think about Groove (www.groove.net)? Some posts concerned web-based project management, and this seems like an interesting solution, or at least heads in the right direction....

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2000

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I'm concerned with their lack of an Open Source strategy.

See this thread on their Tool Developer forum:

http://devzone.groove.net/forums/messageview.gtml?catid=14&threadid=293

-- Anonymous, November 17, 2000

The UI seems a little confused. Within an individual tool, things can change out from under you very rapidly, without your having a sense that another user in your group is really "there." This can be very disorienting. Also, some of the tools have their own UI problems (ahem**outliner**ahem).

The other problem is... well... it seems like they've built a Batmobile and put a nanny chip on it that only lets you do 35, you know? It's got all this great peer-to-peer technology in it, but the default package of tools only lets you use it as a sort of secure-ICQ-on-steroids. I hope that third-party development takes off and we start to see Groove uses that put the rest of the world in there.

-- Anonymous, November 17, 2000

i kinda liked Groove - i wouldnt pay for it but..

-- Anonymous, November 22, 2000