Friday, July 14, 2006

Enterprise collaboration tool

This text details the idea of a simple collaboration tool for Windows. Main features of this tool are:

- transparent integration into Windows OS and Windows Explorer;
- after installation property windows for folders will have a new sharing tab ( Virtual Network Sharing ), in the same way you have now: Sharing and Web Sharing;
- Under My Network Places to appear a node Virtual Networks and here to appear different sub-networks;
- Users will navigate the Virtual Network (integrated into Explorer) in the same way they navigate now the SMB network (Windows network);
- The entire Virtual Network will be build over a P2P infrastructure;
- The virtual network should work properly even computers are on different physical networks behind proxies and firewalls;
- In order to function a public server will support the infrastructure;
- From marketing point of view a home version can be made available for a very low cost and a corporate version much more expensive. The server technology can be sold to big companies who want to orchestrate themselves the virtual networks.
- The underlying protocol should be OS independent so in the future to be able to create clients for other platforms (MacOSX, Linux, PDAs, etc)
- From business point of view the infrastructure should be extended in the future with new collaboration tools such as remote desktop management application (that will work behind firewalls), webex style tools, etc.

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