Is thin wrong?

At http://black.typepad.com/john_blacks_weblog/2005/01/still_the_dread.html John Black refers to the Groove experience on PopG as if it was some kind of very poor brother to "normal" Groove. Whilst I would not want to say that using a Mac is the same as using a PC, I would strongly argue that both can be used very effectively for word processing and spreadsheet work. Also I don't hear that many users of one complaining on a daily basis "oh I wish I had the other type of computer." You just get on with life.

I can see where John is coming from. Groove itself has had a real uphill challenge in getting credibility. He points to the easy ride that E-mail seems to have had, no matter how poor a medium it is. In fact perhaps the primary thing going for E-mail is its ubiquitousness: no small thing of course.

And PopG has had, over time, a similar perceptual challenge to normal Groove usage. Sometimes this is a matter of prejudice, sometimes it is lack of experience. Partly it is due to PopG not having the cash backing of $m investment.

But a PopG delivery of Groove can outstrip a "normal" groove in many areas. For instance, one area is in large datasets. Groove is percieved to bottlneck on performance when a space gets to a certain size. Received wisdom is at around 1-2 gigs. John refers to the Groove EDB product as a solution for this.

Let me say right now that if your Groove project requires spaces up to 1-2gigs.. No, let's go further, exceeding the 1-2 gig limit. Let's go to perhaps 50gigs, perhaps even terabytes. Yes, that's where PopG can deliver - all possibly in fully-functioning ultra-fast performing Groove Viritual Office workspace.