Forbes.com: IBM In Denial Over Lotus Notes#Static#Static

Forbes.com: IBM In Denial Over Lotus Notes#Static#Static: "The marketing folks in IBM's Lotus division are starting to sound like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who insists he's winning a fight even as he loses both arms and legs: ''Tis but a scratch,' the Black Knight declares after one arm is lopped off. 'Just a flesh wound,' he says after losing the other. 'I'm invincible!' "

Murphy Laws Site - Technology Laws

Murphy Laws Site - Technology Laws: "The attention span of a computer is only as long as it electrical cord."

Ozzie eager to set up new 'Office' | Tech News on ZDNet

Ozzie eager to set up new 'Office' | Tech News on ZDNet: "What do you intend to tell Microsoft employees? What's your message to them going in, as one of the three CTOs?
Ozzie: Honestly, I haven't given it that much thought. If I had to, it'd be, 'What can I offer you from 20 years of some success and many mistakes?' You learn from your mistakes."

Microsoft acquires Groove

"My guess is that Groove's integration in the MS Windows desktop will accelerate the collaboration market, and start a fruitful competition in this important IT-segment."
Valuable insight. However, I would push back about this very last point made in this comment:
"Apropos document based: I am not aware of a more powerful e-editor than the native editor "Notes-networks" would have. This is not a paper editor Groove is confined to with MS Word. The documents created with "Notes-Networks" native editor are even open for integration with corporate data (vision for "Notes-networks" Rel-7: could you please include this NSFDB2 DAV-table in your departmental application that we can tap your data easily for our transaction systems. YesSir - 15 minutes later)."

“Office Information Bridge” provides exactly that corporate data awareness for Office documents already today.
more info about IW Bridge

Erfinder von Lotus-Notes geht zu Microsoft - Golem.de: "Microsoft kauft das von Lotus-Notes-Erfinder Ray Ozzie gegruendete Unternehmen Groove Networks. Dieses bietet eine Peer-to-Peer-basierte Groupware-Loesung an, mit der Microsoft seine Produktpalette erweitern will - vor allem im Bereich Microsoft Office."

Wow! - Danke fuer den Pointer, Markus!

Microsoft to buy Groove Networks | CNET News.com

Microsoft to buy Groove Networks | CNET News.com: "Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie, chief technology officer at the software giant. "

Welcome to the team, Ray!

Borland Software Delivery Platform Boosts Collaboration

Borland Software Delivery Platform Boosts Collaboration: "Last month Borland acquired TeraQuest Metrics Inc., an Austin, Texas, process optimization consulting firm, and made its co-founder, Bill Curtis, co-author of the software Capability Maturity Model, Borland's first chief process officer.
Chris Barbin, Borland's senior vice president of worldwide services, said the process component TeraQuest brought to Borland's SDO focus will help customers better align teams, processes and technology in the software lifecycle.
Barbin said the acquisition 'rounds out the capabilities of our SDO vision and evolves the ALM story to drive the software delivery process. To achieve that we had to have process capability.'
Barbin said Curtis' role within the company is 'to work directly with our product groups and continue to drive our product strategy with process-centric thinking.' "
For us business process nerds that sounds like good progress.