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http://www.technologyreview.com/web/mcdonald/mcdonald081301.asp

The pioneer of online collaboration explains why peer-to-peer tools are the future.

Ray Ozzie wants to be the software developer who hits the grand slam not once but twice—first with Lotus Notes, and now with Groove, the peer-to-peer collaboration package launched last fall. Earlier this month, technologyreview.com contributor Glenn McDonald caught up with the fast-moving Ozzie via e-mail and got his latest thoughts about the future of collaboration. Here's an edited version. TR: Why does the world need another collaboration system? Ozzie: From the personal perspective, "online collaboration," or knowledge work with others toward a common objective, facilitated by technology, is becoming the rule as opposed to the exception....

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