Collaborating by Groove
Published: 16 Mar 2004 11:55 GMT
Skype will give you access to that switch. VoIP in general represents an inflection point, a slight disruptor for the incumbents, but Skype takes it all the way to the extreme and simply says, "no, if you have an Internet connection out there, you do not need to pay anything to anybody to do phone calls." So true decentralised rich-client software for telecom is really a disrupter, and we represent essentially what someone can do a productivity and communication stance -- a collaborative productivity realm in decentralisation.
When Groove launched in 2000, it was known as a peer-to-peer computing company, but you don't hear that from the company as much these days. Is that a deliberate shift?
I think that, oddly enough, what you will see over this year is that we will be talking about ourselves again a little bit more in that dimension. That term was used just more from a factual standpoint to help people understand. We felt a backlash for using it at a certain point, as IT managers were shutting down their networks in a very blanket fashion to P2P networks, because they were afraid of lawsuits.
Now, because of the telecom thing, in particular, it is kind of coming back in the conversation in terms of "wait, you can really save money by using a peer-to-peer architecture for doing this, that and the others." We are not going to be out there, trying to create another peer-to-peer wave, but when somebody does understand that a peer-to-peer architecture can save the money, it is relevant.
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