On Tuesday 02 Jun 2009, Victor Churchill wrote:
> I did find myself wondering how well it would hold up in a less
> favourable network environment: whether the latency might become a
> problem.
Two things here. First of all, networks are beginning to get faster and more
reliable, so in time I believe the performance will be there. The second
point is that as someone else said, companies will be able to run this over
their intranet and even with offsite nodes, the performance should be pretty
good if they have fast inter-site connections.
> And finally, although there still is a wow-factor there, I find myself
> wondering just how I would actually see it being used. I don't really
> think there is that much call for picture sharing and real time
> collaborative editing, and it seemed like it was addressing
> requirements I don't have. I'd quite like to be persuaded otherwise...
We use Groove at work for collaborative development with IEEE Standards and
it's pretty good, even though the product was bought by Microsoft and you can
no longer buy it without buying Office 2007, (no surprises there then).
I say that it's pretty good, but it's not a patch on Google Wave. We could do
some really powerful stuff if we went over to Wave and save money too.
> Maybe something to discuss over a beer tomorrow.
;-( I just got back from Chester.
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Terry Coles
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