Oracle Beehive - Next Next Generation of Collaboration software 
(Lucas Jellema) One of the major announcements during Charles Philips keynote: Oracle Beehive: integrated and secure collaboration platform.The successor to Oracle Collaboration Suite.Targeted at Enterprise Collaboration. And allegedly built from scratch in 3 years. The demo showed the Outlook Client running against the Beehive server. And not Outlook as we know it - Outlook extended with many collaboration features. Access to Workspaces in which teams collaborate on documents, presentations etc. In a workspace, members have access to joint resources, on line communication (IM/Chat) and on line conferencing. The demo included two clients working in a virtual collaborarion environment - jointly developing a Powerpoint presentation, both making changes. The Beehive software ensure bi-directional synchronization - changes on one client are rapidly synchronized among all members in the workspace. It looks cool!
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