Ray Ozzie a Disappointment
March 6, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
Alister Cameron is a wee bit miffed at Ray Ozzie’s seeming lack of impact at Microsoft.
Before Ray was with Microsoft he was with IBM and Notes. But in-between he built what I thought was one of the most funky cool amazing things called Groove. You can think of Groove (at least as it was then) as a P2P “team workspace” with really nice encryption, SDK, pricing model, UI, etc. The technology was gorgeous, and the power of it was really impressive. We’re talking shared documents, built-in voice conferencing, whiteboarding, project management, etc. And all that run over a peer-to-peer architecture with high encryption and more cool stuff that I can no longer recall.
I’m wondering if he was just playing it under-the-radar until Gates got more out of the picture. Microsoft’s recent announcement about sharing key software API’s and code sure looks like a giant step towards a more open corporate methodology. Is it purely to satiate and satisfy the EU?
