Groove Networks: Making P2P a Reality
Topics: Communications Culture Operations Organizational Structure P2P / Sharing Economy
Ed Ludwigson T'02, under the supervision of Visiting Professor Melissa M. Appleyard
Length: 7 pages
Publication date: 2002
Case#: 6-0008
Is P2P the future of collaboration in the workplace? Groove Networks certainly believes so, as do backers Accel Partners, Intel Capital, and most recently Microsoft. But will the Microsoft relationship launch Groove on to the desktops of millions or see Groove subsumed within the Redmond software giant? Will Groove’s future exist solely as a project collaboration tool or will it create a completely new platform for P2P computing?
