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Guido-tsn

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Wednesday, August 18th 2004, 5:12pm

What really is groupware?

Hi

There has been a lot of mention of the term "groupware" in the community. It is generally presented as "the next big thing", "a real must have" or something along those lines.

Unfortunately, the actual meaning of that term "groupware" is still a bit fuzzy to me. Is it just another buzzword or is there a clear-cut definition for this?

One particular feature I was hoping for on hearing that word "groupware" was shared email-folders, i.e. the possibility to have certain folders in KMail (or whatever mailclient is used then) that can be used by several users (== instances of KMail) simultaneously. Can I expect this in groupware implementations like kolab?

Guido

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Wednesday, August 18th 2004, 11:19pm

Re: What really is groupware?

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Original von Guido-tsn

Hi

There has been a lot of mention of the term "groupware" in the community. It is generally presented as "the next big thing", "a real must have" or something along those lines.

Unfortunately, the actual meaning of that term "groupware" is still a bit fuzzy to me. Is it just another buzzword or is there a clear-cut definition for this?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupware for a definition of the term groupware. Pretty broad definition, if you ask me. So I think one really has to look at the feature list of each product that is advertised as "groupware".

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Wednesday, August 18th 2004, 11:22pm

I undestand groupware as "software that allows a group o people to work seperatly but as if they were working in the same place" but I think you are generaly correct. More correct that I maybe...

Just check the wikipedia definition in konqueror you can use wp:groupware (not a link because konq does not accept it from pages).