groupware vs software

groupware and software both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
groupware	Yes	No	No	No
software	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, software is a hypernym of groupware; that is, software is a word with a broader meaning than groupware:

groupware: software that can be used by a group of people who are working on the same information but may be distributed in space
software: (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory

Other hypernyms of groupware include computer software, package, software package, software program, software system.

groupware (noun)	software (noun)
software that can be used by a group of people who are working on the same information but may be distributed in space	(computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory