From February 12, 2007 to February 16, an international event on SharePoint was held in Berlin.
Jean-Louis SEITE, our SharePoint fan, and myself attended. Marc Houssais, our senior Groove Architect, joigned later on in the week (14-16) for the advanced two days long presentations of Groove 2007 product streamlines and associated solutions with an invited set of attendees representing 60 compagnies. We met a set of open-minded and really nice persons looking there for this particular added-value Groove platform allowing them to maximize dynamic highly secure teaming plus social business and discover the long term repository integration features with SharePoint.
During the Groove conference, we also met the German company Mindbusiness. We can indeed say, as mentionned on Mindbusiness's blog, that chance significantly contributed to discuss on Mindbusiness stand ... Whereas, at the same time, let me say that Mindbusiness's stand refered to their MindJet partnership logo which attracted my attention. Those who know Hommes & Process historical partnership with TeamDirection Inc working now on MindManager to allow stronger project integration thanks to TeamDirection Project solutions ... will note that hazard was partly predictible ;-)
Andreas Strothmann and Christian Schräder are really passionnating persons. Spontaneously they mentionned GrooveIT! which is a particularly good sign especially when you know that we had just launched it during the Microsoft TechDays in Paris the week before ! Indeed more to come with the book which will not be just a product centric book! Die französisch-deutsche Freundschaft im Sinne der europäischen Konstruction wird den Rest machen.
More to discuss in this blog later on regarding these days...
Jean-Michel Davault