Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Software that integrates work on a single project by several concurrent users at separated workstations.
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- noun computing
software designed to be usedcollaboratively by multipleusers on anetwork
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun software that can be used by a group of people who are working on the same information but may be distributed in space
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term groupware refers to applications that facilitate real-time communication, coordination and collaboration amongst groups of people.
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Geoff Cohen's nailed a really important idea about network effects in "groupware," and the way that groupware creates group-think:
Boing Boing: September 14, 2003 - September 20, 2003 Archives 2003
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There seems to be some concern about whether to call it groupware instead of a cloud.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » I Want a Personal Cloud 2009
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There seems to be some concern about whether to call it groupware instead of a cloud.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » I Want a Personal Cloud 2009
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Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz (the people who coined the term groupware!
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Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz (the people who coined the term groupware!
doggdot.us 2008
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Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz (the people who coined the term groupware!
doggdot.us 2008
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This would enable them to deliver on the largely unfulfilled promise of groupware, which is now 20 years old.
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Do you use any of the older (what we used to call groupware) collaboration apps within the DOD?
gantthead.com 2009
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This would enable them to deliver on the largely unfulfilled promise of groupware, which is now 20 years old.
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