With Groove, they can also follow Web links together. I've got great hopes for it. Ford Calhoun, chief information officer at drug company GlaxoSmithKline, gets new product pitches constantly but often ignores them. For him, Groove was different. The guy, with Notes, totally changed the way many people are able to collaborate and do work.
Groove is essentially a software platform that companies and individuals can build upon.
It's not designed to replace existing software applications, but to let people use those applications in new ways. Groove is somewhat like a Napster for businesses, except Ozzie started work on it years before the online music-swapping service emerged. Upon graduating, he discovered that the business world was largely devoid of such tools and set out to change that. Lotus Notes was all about bringing people together. As he worked on Notes, Ozzie began to notice changes in how companies interacted.