Co-workers who are separated by oceans may not be able to gather around the water cooler to pool their ideas, but these days, they're likely to be more connected than ever, thanks to collaborative software products.
Solving that problem is the goal of the Mifos Initiative, a collaborative software project started two years ago by a nonprofit foundation.
Early builds of "the world's largest collaborative software project" will launch to Windows Insiders this week.
Drawing upon this expertise, they started developing a software product that made Office collaborative.
"Microsoft is always a challenge, but we know it doesn't really push collaborative software either technologically or from a marketing standpoint," said Tal Benzion, product manager for Netopia of Alameda, Calif., a maker of a remote-access product called Timbuktu.
The first companies to respond to customers on the site are typically tech-oriented — like Twitter, the instant messaging service, and PBwiki, a collaborative software maker — but the site aims to serve a broad realm of consumer products.
The central message proposed a stable network performance based on collaborative software to provide multi-level information for industrial management of parasite contaminants in fish products.
At its foundation, collaborative software enables conversation.
Momus is an open-source code, collaborative software.
Collaborative software development can be hugely successful or fail spectacularly.
