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From: szabo@crg5.UUCP (Nick Szabo)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Discussing Groupware
Message-ID: <20922@crg5.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 91 23:57:48 GMT
Reply-To: szabo@crg5.UUCP (Nick Szabo)
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc
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IMHO the best starting point for a groupware discussion is not
trying to define "what is groupware", or thinking up future forms
of groupware, but looking at the groupware we already have.  That
is why I have been discussing e-mail and e-news, because these are
the predominant groupware applications today.  Other widely used
groupware applications include the rcs/sccs source code revision systems
and bug tracking systems used in software engineering.  Traffic signs
and lights are a form of groupware used outside the computer terminal 
paradigm.  We already have a wealth of experience with groupware to go 
on; we needn't start from scratch.  Once we obtain this knowledge, we can
have an intelligent discussion of new forms of groupware.



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Nick Szabo			szabo@sequent.com
Embrace Change...  Keep the Values...  Hold Dear the Laughter...