Much of my enthusiasm fior Groove stems from the fact that for the first time we have a tachnology that is suited to india in all respects

1. Designed for a distributed environment - as is our local industry
2. Works under the most austere conditions even a 56 kbps dialup
3. 100% secure (certified for the US Intelligence services)
4. 100% reliable - will never miss a sync or corrupt data - autmatically
5. Priced at a level that makes it usable in the smallest company in India.
6. Works across firewalls hence organisations with no change in config.

Ray Ozzie felt that IBM had turned his Lotus Notes product into a 800 pound Gorilla, expensive enough to own but even worse to support. He created groove as a challenge, to disrupt the prevailing technology equation - by changing the power / ease of use / price equation beyond recognition.

Groove is both client and server in one as the situation demands - the user needs to do no setups whatsoever. Install and run. Of-course groove has an enterprise background and when you want to add further security and admin layers like LDAP and Managed accounts Groove fits into the corporate environment seamlessly.

While Groove was first adopted by fortune 1000 companies like GSK, Pfizer, KPMG and even the US DoD, Interpol and the united nations, it is actually one of the best products for the SMB market because of its ease of use / self management and low infrastructure demands.

rgds

ashok