Facebook, in response to other popular social sites such as FriendFeed and Twitter, has redesigned their traditionally click-to-update news feed into a live status stream. New advanced filters have also been added to the mix that allow you to view your status stream for just family members, local friends or a variety of other options. Preview the new Facebook design set to go live mid next week.
Is the fourth time a charm for Oracle? Beehive is their latest attempt to capture a piece of the business collaboration software market which has been dominated by Microsoft with Exchange and SharePoint and IBM’s Lotus Notes and Domino software. Oracle claims this time will be different with Beehive which, unlike its competitor’s current offerings, has been designed around collaboration from the ground up with such features as “Web-based team workspaces,” including wikis, collaborative calendars, file sharing, enhanced security, web teleconferencing and more.
“The market leaders are groupware products that have grown up,” says David Gilmour, Oracle’s Senior Vice President of Collaboration Technologies. “Collaboration was layered on after the fact, not designed that way in the beginning. Beehive is almost the complete inverse of that.”
Reuters: Oracle aims at Microsoft with upgraded Beehive collaboration
A new offering enters the Enterprise 2.0 collaboration market this week with Jive Express. The goal of this software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of Jive’s collaboration suite is to provide a light weight and low cost solution to allow more companies to get on board with next generation collaboration tools. With a price tag of $3 per user along with a three month trial for those who qualify, there is little commitment to this cloud based collaboration solution. In the future if a company chooses to upgrade to the more robust Jive SBS it is easy to migrate the data from Jive Express. Jive SBS is offered as a hosted solution or can be installed on-premise.
