Beehive is Oracle Collaboration Redesigned from the Ground Up
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
