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In Quarterman's (, John. S. [1990]. The matrix: Computer networks and 
conferencing systems worldwide. Bedford, MA: Digital Press) discussion of 
conferencing systems history and future (pp. 155-156), groupware is placed 
under the "Mature, 1990-1995" period: 

"There also seems to be increasing emphasis on _groupware_ -- i.e., software 
meant to help group interaction (refs deleted). This is a rather general term 
and is used to refer to anything from electronic mail to distributed databases 
that facilitates groups working together (ref deleted). In other words, it 
includes both CMC and resource sharing. Perhaps this is a sign of eventual 
better communication between the conferencing and networking communities."

In his first substantive chapter, Quarterman (1990, p. 12) presents an 
overview of the area that categorizes services along a resource sharing versus 
CMC dimension (the other dimension is batch vs interactive). Thus, according 
to his analysis, groupware, is a concept uniting the different technologies 
for supporting group work. It makes sense that the as the area matures, the 
focus will move from technologies to the services they support, since this is 
what is important to the users. This analysis suggests that groupware will 
play an increasingly important role.




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