Top ten technology innovators: Ray Ozzie
by Volker Weber
STARTING FOUR YEARS ago with only a whiteboard, a card table, and a firm resolve to address a thorny business problem, Notes inventor Ray Ozzie and a small, hand-picked development team crafted the first decentralized collaborative product based on peer-to-peer technology.
After three years and 3 million lines of code, Groove Networks, which was run like a stealth project that would make the CIA envious, debuted in October 2000 and ever since has shone a white-hot spotlight on what p-to-p technologies can do to solve serious business problems.
