Group or collaborative computing requires a walk-up-and-use experience. Fifty percent of meetings are impromptu, unplanned. So if you're planning on providing a collaborative technology, you'd better have one that people don't have to plan to use.
People I know inside Chery say (it will happen) no sooner than 2008.
You can have 10, 15 or 100 rooms joined together. You also can have people log into the meeting as a participant through their laptops with an IP address.
That has been the biggest issue, and people are asking what are you going to do to fix it?' ... The second issue, taking care of police and fire, is way down the list from the electric utility.
They'll see a figure like Princess Diana who many people feel great affection for and suck them in that way.