Quick Links, Mar 1

Positions

• In the moment ... Nice piece from Jeffrey about "being in the moment" as a way of maximizing productivity. Thinking Faster

Vendor Moves

• Hosted Zimbra ... Zimbra announced the initial list of its hosting partners. The hosting partner runs the server, and you get all the end-user features. Zimbra


• Microsoft on Groove 2007 ... A few articles around on Groove 2007. Most point to the idea that Groove 2007 will be the offline store for Windows SharePoint Services. Comment: There were some disclosures from Microsoft last year about Outlook 2007 being able to offline some WSS lists too. Will be interesting to see what actually gets done, and whether users get too confused. reseller.co.nz


• Socialtext Pricing Revamp ... Socialtext revised its pricing model, adding a free option for groups of up to 5 users. Socialtext


• Microsoft Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino ... Microsoft released the oft-discussed Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino, and a corresponding white paper. Peter de Haas

Other Industry Happenings

• Webinar: "Embedding Collaboration and Publisher Services in Applications" ... BEA Systems is hosting a Webinar on Thursday March 9 about embedding collaborative and publishing capabilities in applications. BEA Systems

Comments

[Barry Jinks]

Michael,

Just a comment on the Groove-SharePoint integration Quick Link. You probably already know this, but Groove integration with SharePoint documents is great for Groove users, however it's just one of the many ways that SharePoint users can, and will be able to, take content offline. For example, Office 2003 already has some SharePoint integration and Office 2007 will improve upon it. As you mentioned, Outlook 2007 will provide an offline SharePoint document library and list capability, too. I've put up a blog at www.offlinesharepoint.com to discuss this very topic if you are interested.

As I think you know, we are about to release our own tools for bringing rich SharePoint content offline to users laptops. We think SharePoint is much more than a document management server and the experience we have had through our beta program has indicated that users want much more than offline access to just documents. Rather they would like to access custom lists and metadata that's used to manage business processes.

Great site, by the way!

Barry Jinks,
President & CEO,
Colligo Networks, Inc.

[Robert Matney]

Michael,

As one of Zimbra's initial Hosting Partners, Amicus, Inc. is proud to be offering the Zimbra Collaboration Suite as part of our latest product offering, 'Amicus Envoy with Zimbra Inside,' which marries the ease and innovation of Zimbra's Collaboration Suite (ZCS) with the dependability and grace of Amicus’ hosted compliance solutions.

We are enormous fans of ZCS here at Amicus, and we encourage anyone interested in leading their team toward greater teamwork to investigate the feasibility of any Zimbra solution. We definitely eat our own dog food, and have been thrilled with ZCS' ability to help us connect more effectively.

Our Amicus Envoy solution can provide any company with integration of the Zimbra collaboration they want, and the archiving and regulatory compliance tools they need.

Please let me know if I can provide you any further details regarding our efforts, service, and products.

@ Your Service,
____
Robert Matney
Relationship Advocate
Amicus, Inc.

[Jennifer Vasquez]

We're currently testing http://www.01.com for Zimbra hosting, and although we don't plan on deploying until the release and successful upgrade to Zimbra 5 in Q4, 2007, we are pleased with the results so far.

What we're waiting for in Z5 addresses the issue brought up above, an main issue for us, which is document sharing. Zimbra briefcase seems to be the answer to this, and iZimbra for the iPhone is also going to be important for our organization...

http://www.zimbra.com/blog/archives/2007/08/zimbra_briefcase_1.html