Groove Web Services
HOW DO YOU PORT 5 million lines of Win32/COM code to the
Pocket PC? That was the dilemma that Groove Networks faced when
considering how to bring its ultrasecure peer collaboration
technology to mobile devices. Jamming 10 pounds of potatoes into a
one-pound sack wasn't an option, but lateral thinking yielded a new
plan: Don't port; use Web services as integration glue. Thus was
born the skunkworks project first dubbed "edge services" and now
known as GWS (Groove Web Services). [Full story at
InfoWorld.com.]
Former URL: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2002/11/03.html#a496