groove’s ray ozzie responds to craig burton’s characterization of groove as a “closed” environment. it’s an amazingly cogent response that includes a line that i’d really like to try to incorporate into daily conversations:
“Groove is not an RPC-based system; it’s fundamentally based upon asynchronous xml message queuing as its underlying mechanism, rather than procedure call. Essentially, it’s an open component-based application platform built upon a masterless distributed transaction system built upon a Jabber-esque (compressed, encrypted) XML asynchronous message transport.”