Well my first scrap...
So lemme scrap about the thing I really excited and confused about.

"Collaboration" small word for those who go by definitions and here is how wikipedia defines it "Collaboration refers abstractly to all processes wherein people work together —applying both to the work of individuals as well as larger collectives and societies."

Ask Manager of a resaonably sized organization and you will get the other side of the story. Collaboration in simple words mean "Life is tough for you Mr Manager","Mr Manager can you get me a two year old chat transcript",'ah! and what about the mail that I sent you a month ago" and "the hyperlink that we used in preparing the FRD." and so on. Collaboration in corporate world means you get the message surely, reliably, quickly and the most important aspect is it stays there. It stays there and in a manner thats comprehendable, rational and wishfully hierarichal, we dont wanna spend an entire day to find a document in my archive file of say 50GB, do we ?

Collaboration or rather Effective collaboration is one thing every organization strives for and there are reasons they strive for it. The biggest reason is the reason that would sound most logical to 90% of us. "Dollors", yep its the savings and really big savings that effective collaoration brings in, that is driving more and more organizations to achieve that.

Consider this ... Me working on a devolopment module for six months and then I decide to get a move on and quit the module. You join in, well congratualtions and welcome, what all you need from me ? Baffled how in the world can a new devoloper know what all he needs from the old devoloper. Ok lemme see what I got for you, well there is a mail that has initial descriptions of the project, then there is FRD ( word doc ) and hey hang on I have some chat transcripts that might be useful for you and ya there is of cource a ppt that lists our build resources blah blah blah..............................Hang on man, gimme a break am I supposed to go through all that.... Isnt there a single place where all my mails, links , chat transcripts, disscusions within team, discussions with customers, their opinions and god knows what else lies.
Have we missed something in here, hope not because the new guy will really be screwed if we have but there is no way to be 100% sure.

Now lez move on to a slightly different example. We wanna design the structure of this page. Simple, lez get started ...
Going by my opinion we should have a greyish background and blackish text, what u got to say abt it.Nops I say we have to maintain a white background and black text, this is official web page. Ok we settle on that.. but the font should be courier. No again it should be georgia.
Lez say "AB" joins in ... The first remark he makes is why dont we have a greyish backgroud !!
Me and you may be amused but the comapny is not. Comapny wastes man hours in explaining to "AB" why the background cant be greyish. What if "AB" gets the earlier scripts, company saves "dollors".

Now the big question "How AB gets the chat transcripts ?". Dont tell me you didnt saved them because I didnt. Even if I had saved them, I have around 10k chat transcripts, instead of me wasting a day lets allow "AB" to waste up some time. Easy, well not so, a big organization will always have people joining and leaving. What if you and me quit the comapny ? Nobody know why the web page is greyish, that may sound amusing but the crux is "company is doomed". Its not sure what and why things are as they are.

So whats the solution to all this mess....................