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From: p+t@awaken.UUCP (Peter+Trudy Johnson-Lenz)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Re: why so little groupware?
Message-ID: <220@awaken.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 90 18:58:56 GMT
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Organization: Awakening Technology, Lake Oswego OR
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Stan> The biggest lesson I learned while working on the Colab project is:
    > 
    > 		Building groupware is really hard.

It's interesting that this generality applies regardless of the type of
groupware.  Ours is asynchronous narrow-band text, Stan's Colab is
synchronous wide-band multi-media.  The problems are often different, but
the challenge of using the technology to support the complexities of human
interaction is the same.