Henry van Eyken wrote:
> I read the piece as an ordinary generalist, not as a software engineer
> (which, of course, I am not). From this perspective I somehow can't seem to
> fathom what OHS does that Groove does not (other than possibly a bevvy of
> techniques I understand to be found in Augment and that have not - yet? -
> entered in common use).
I agree Groove looks cool and very much like a big chunk of the
infrastrucutre what we would like to see. Without having used Groove, I
might guess that I think the biggest difference from OHS/Augment type
ideas is that knowledge within Groove may not appear as an integrated
whole, but instead as some application specific representations managed
by various applications sharing a common peer-ro-peer communications
approach (i.e. a peer-to-peer lotus notes). [I am not certain of that
though.] Also, obviously, this is a proprietary Windows only product,
although it is extensible under Windows using the COM interface. It has
already had $60 million dollars invested in it and will face all the
usual issues in marketing itself as a proprietary product against other
entrenched proprietary products. Boast: For 0.1% of that cost ($60,000)
using Squeak I could outclass it in one year with an open system.
-Paul Fernhout
Kurtz-Fernhout Software
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Developers of custom software and educational simulations
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