Groove Networks announce version 1.0 of its peer-to-peer softwareBeverly 09 April 2001 Groove Networks announced the availability to enterprise customers of Groove 1.0, its Internet peer-to-peer communications software and network services platform, and an initial sale of 10,000 licenses to GlaxoSmithKline, a world leading research-based pharmaceutical company with more than 100,000 employees worldwide. With the availability of Groove 1.0, Groove Networks now offers the first enterprise-class peer computing software and network services infrastructure for conducting communications and commerce over the Internet.
Groove 1.0 software is being used by its early enterprise adopters to bring
people together spontaneously and securely across enterprise boundaries to work
on time-critical projects, and to host high-value custom solutions specifically
designed to reduce time-to-decision and time-to-action.
Groove is a software and network services platform that transforms the
Internet into a medium for direct, secure personal communication and
interaction. The software comprises a set of immediately useful communication
and information sharing tools, built upon a powerful peer computing platform
that developers can use to integrate Groove with existing business systems such
as customer relationship management, document management, product design, or
enterprise resource planning.
Groove 1.0 software includes many enhancements to the version initially released
for preview in October 2000, including support for a wider range of firewalls,
reduced resource requirements, support for secure roles and permissions,
improved Microsoft Office and NetMeeting integration, and, most significantly
for enterprises, the introduction of Enterprise Network Services enabling
companies to centrally control product deployment and security policies across
their global networks.
"Our mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do
more, feel better and live longer," said Ford Calhoun, chief information officer
of GlaxoSmithKline. "Teams working to discover new drugs typically comprise our
own scientists, together with collaborators from biotechnology companies and
universities. These teams need to share sensitive information and coordinate
activities, and often times team members change as the project progresses. With
its ability to work across firewalls and its highly secure environment, Groove
appears to lend itself uniquely to our challenge of supporting these teams with
technology that can assist their life-changing research."
"Raytheon is a company that is a combination of diverse cultures resulting from
significant merger-and-acquisition activity and independent business units,"
said Saul Fisher, director of strategic initiatives, Raytheon Corporation. "As
such, we have a significant opportunity to leverage expertise and facilitate
meaningful team interaction among our employees and with our suppliers and
customers as well. The Groove platform represents an exciting opportunity for us
to enable secure collaboration through the firewall, and to reduce our cost of
goods sold by decreasing the cost of connections throughout our supply chain."
"Groove has been selected as the communications infrastructure for the
collaborative environment that will support a Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) investigation studying human and software agent interaction
utilizing peer-to-peer technologies," said Dr. John Poindexter, senior vice
president of Syntek Technologies Inc. "DARPA is investigating how this
technology can be applied to research it is conducting on `aids for human
reasoning'. If successful, this investigation could lead to a full-scale project
and broad application of its concepts throughout the national security
community."
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