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Description of Groove's positioning as a Rich Client for Collaboration Ware. Our competition is the current/traditional means of collaboration, which is a centralized approach... People don't use the same tools each time they embark on a collaborative activity: Because web services are centralized, a vendor must deliver a common denominator set of functionality which ultimately forces everyone to work within that framework. A key point here is that Groove is a development framework/environment, so comparing to a specific centralized service isn't entirely appropriate. I wonder whether Web Services will provide some of this benefit, allowing different vendors to integrate their apps...