Newbie Questions on Groove

[Chris]

Hi I work for a web development company and have been looking at Groove as a
way of doing training. The idea of having a web browser, various manuals to
download and print out and VOIP looks quite good. The thing is I have been
looking at a fairly old book (Peer to Peer Progamming on Groove - I picked
it up second hand). What I would like is a more up to date insight. Is
Groove still used in this way to build P2P collaborative apps, what are the
licencing issues involved, do all the clients have to buy Groove or is there
some way we could buy a bulk licence and package our own Groove client with
the functionality we need. Regards, Chris.

 

[Mark Smith]

Hi Chris-

I'd recommend LiveMeeting rather than Groove for this kind of thing. Its
what we use when we're training or demonstrating our Groove solutions and it
works well.

 

[Schultz IT Solutions]

Hello Chris,

Let's try to answer your questions (one by one):
1) Microsoft Office Groove 2007 is still Groove (and therefore a P2P
collaboration environment).
2) Licencing: Office Groove is available as Standalone product and as part
of "ultimate" and "enterprise" editions of Office 2007.
3) Bulk Licencing: Groove Licencekeys are available thru Microsoft
OpenLicence Programm, so you should be able to pack Groove as you like

Hope this helps you with a good start to Groove
regards
Ruediger Schultz