Five pound of gummy bear is waiting for you! PDF Print E-mail
GWAVA is running a survey about using Apple products in GroupWise environments. Answer their short survey for a chance to win one of the world's largest gummy bears. (You know you want one.) Five pounds of gummy bear goodness could be yours for answering this short survey, so fill out the survey at http://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/10c1eg4844d
 
 
GroupLink Announces FREE Service Desk Solution for OH Members PDF Print E-mail
VIENNA, Nov. 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- GroupLink Corporation, makers of the first ZENworks 10 integrated service desk, the "everything HelpDesk" (eHD), announced the upcoming release of its free service desk solution at the 2010 Open Horizons EMEA Summit. This free solution, slated to release by 31 January 2011, is an exclusive offer for all Open Horizons Members. This announcement comes as GroupLink shows its commitment to the EMEA market and the members of Open Horizons, the largest Novell user community in the world.
 
!!! FREE Service Desk Solution for Open Horizons Members !!!
 
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GWAVACon: Last chance to get your early bird! PDF Print E-mail
Time is short! The early bird ticket for Open Horizons members is valid until September 15, 2010. To this day all Open Horizons members can get a GWAVACon ticket for EUR 250. After this deadline the regular ticket price will be EUR 420 for Open Horizons members. Finally there are a lot of new details regarding training, workshops and speakers available online. So Dave Wilkes, Engineering Vice President Novell, will be on-site at GWAVACon EMEA for the first time to talk about products, visions and future plans in his keynote and guide you through his workshops. Download the event flyer here. More information and the registration at www.GWAVACon.com
 
GWAVACon: Special price for OH-Members worldwide PDF Print E-mail
Open Horizons members are going to get a special discount for GWAVACon EMEA 2010. This huge event around the Novell product line is going to happen again in Berlin from the 23rd to the 25th of October. Members will get 15 % discount both on the early bird price (295 Euro until End of August) as well as on the normal price (495 Euro from 1st of september). Open Horizons is going to be a sponsor at this event, we would be happy to meet you there. GWAVACon information and registration here.....
 
GWAVA: Free Movie for BrainShare Attendees PDF Print E-mail
Looking for something to do on Sunday evening before BrainShare begins? Come join GWAVA and our partners for a free movie at the downtown MegaPlex at the Gateway Mall, a walkable distance from the Salt Palace Convention Center. GWAVA is offering free tickets to any BrainShare attendees who wish to join us to watch the “Bounty Hunter,” starring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler. Seating is limited, so make sure you register to reserve your spot as soon as possible.
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Join the Vibe - Welcome to Our Vibe Tour - Soon in Your Area! PDF Print E-mail
Novell Vibe is the next-generation social collaboration platform for the enterprise that's available both in the cloud and on-premise. Vibe brings together the team collaboration and social business products formerly known as Novell Teaming and Pulse to make it easier for people to work together and drive better & faster business results. It offers next-generation capabilities such as real-time social messaging and online document co-editing along with file management, groups, profiles, workflow, and security and management controls.
Join the Vibe Tour Now & Feel the Power of Social Networking for your Organization!
 
Free 60 day Trial of Novell File Management Suite PDF Print E-mail
Novell is pleased to announce the availability of Novell File Management Suite Assessment to all customers worldwide.  Now customers can get the benefits of a 60-day, full-functionality trial of all products in the Novell File Management Suite. This offering replaces Novell File Reporter Assessment, which allowed customers to deploy only one product for 60 days.  Novell is giving greater value to partners and customers with this enhanced offering.
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BrainShare 2011 Announcement - Delayed planning PDF Print E-mail
A lot of people are wondering what will happen to BrainShare USA with the pending Attachmate acquisition, here is some news from the official BrainShare website:
"Many of you have asked what the November 22, 2010 acquisition announcement means for BrainShare in 2011. Based on recent events and customer feedback, we have decided to delay planning for BrainShare 2011. We will announce plans for BrainShare at a later date. Check back here for future BrainShare communications."
 
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Attachmate: Open Letter to Novell Customers PDF Print E-mail
Re: Attachmate commitment to Novell and SUSE products

Since the announcement of our intent to acquire Novell, we have received a number of questions regarding our plans for supporting Novell products. I know that during this period between the announcement and closing, there are more questions than answers, and I am sensitive to the challenges that this uncertainty may create for Novell customers and partners. I want to take this opportunity to be clear about the commitments we make to all of our customers.
 
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Novell Vibe OnPrem 3 Now Available PDF Print E-mail
Novell Vibe, the next-generation social collaboration platform that's available on-premise and in the cloud, was announced at Enterprise 2.0 last month - creating a lot of press coverage, customer interest and beneficial buzz.  Novell Vibe brings together the products formerly known as Novell Teaming (now Novell Vibe OnPrem) and Novell Pulse (now Novell Vibe Cloud) to help organizations drive better and faster business results.
 
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Novell Agrees to be Acquired by Attachmate Corporation PDF Print E-mail
Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL), the leader in intelligent workload management, today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Attachmate Corporation would acquire Novell for $6.10 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion. Attachmate Corporation is owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo. Novell also announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft Corporation, for $450 million in cash, which cash payment is reflected in the merger consideration to be paid by Attachmate Corporation.
 
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The news is out - Novell to be acquired by Attachmate PDF Print E-mail
Monday November 22 - the news is out - Novell will be taken over by Attachmate for USD 2.2 billion - meanwhile part of the deal was a sale of intellectual property rights for USD 450 million to CPTN Holding, a consortium of technologies companies lead by Microsoft Corporation. Will this be good or bad news for Novell customers and partners? This remains to be seen - Novell might be in a safe-heaven now or being eaten by vultures - it will at least mean that there will be a lot of news around Novell in the next few weeks. 
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Google is ending development on Wave. So what about Pulse? PDF Print E-mail

 A logical question Novell has already been asked is “does Novell plan to continue development of its real-time, enterprise communication and collaboration solution, Novell Pulse?”

The answer is an emphatic Yes. At Novell, they hear from enterprise users that they need the combination of social connections, rich profiles, real-time co-authoring and their ever-present files in order to make it easier to work together and actually produce better results. Novell Pulse delivers this combination that business consumers want, plus the security controls enterprises demand. Novell is highly committed to the future of enterprise collaboration, and Novell Pulse is on track. Further, they remain committed to pursuing the benefits of real-time collaboration to enable new applications, users and organizations to work together.
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Want to synchronize GroupWise with SharePoint? PDF Print E-mail
Today, Novell announced that its Data Synchronizer product is now shipping with a GroupWise connector. Specifically this means that Novell GroupWise now syncs to Microsoft SharePoint and other third-party applications including Salesforce.com and SugarCRM.
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SUSE Studio from Novell Wins 2010 American Business Award PDF Print E-mail
Novell announced SUSE Studio has been granted the 2010 American Business Award for Best New Product or Service * Computer Hardware or Services. SUSE Studio is a free, Web‑based solution that allows users to quickly build complete software appliances in just minutes. SUSE Studio allows for mass customization and provides a bridge to the cloud, enabling software vendors and end users to build unique yet fully supported configurations of the operating system that run in physical, virtual and cloud environments.
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GroupWise: Mobility Schedule Update PDF Print E-mail
Dean Lythgoe, Director Engineering GroupWise at Novell, posted some information about the availability of the new Datasynchronizer within his Novell blog.....
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BES 5.0.1 Public Beta - Announced by Alex Evans (Novell) PDF Print E-mail
Great news to share this week. I (Alex Evans, Novell) got a call from my counterpart at RIM and they are releasing a public beta of their BES 5.0.1 for GroupWise. We have been running 5.0.1 in house for a number of months as part of the early adopter program, so we have been validating it against the latest GroupWise agents.
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Novell Conferencing Now Available! PDF Print E-mail
Novell Conferencing—a cost-effective, easy-to-use web conferencing solution—is now available.

Novell Conferencing helps organizations reduce travel costs by instantly sharing documents, web pages, whiteboards, audio and video—even recording meetings—without any participant software to install. Novell Conferencing is also the only solution that integrates with Novell GroupWise. While users are in their GroupWise mailbox, they can simply click on a Novell Messenger (formerly GroupWise Messenger) icon to schedule or instantly launch a web conference.

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Update on Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack PDF Print E-mail
The open technology preview Novell announced at BrainShare U.S. has been extremely successful. As of April 19, Novell had 1,522 downloads and very productive discussion taking place in the Novell forums. As a reminder, the technology preview--as well as available supporting resources--can be found at http://www.novell.com/mobilitypreview.
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Properly register & update OES2 Server via Novell Customer Care Center PDF Print E-mail
Do you have machines in your Novell Customer Care Center that come up as unknown or just do not look right? Have a look at this tip from Norm O'Neal, as he describes a quick way to fix this situation. By the way, Norm is the president of Open Horizons - US Midwest, a NUI chapter which recently decided to "convert" to Open Horizons - congratulations to Norm and his crew - keep up the good work!

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BrainShare is back in Europe - Join us in Amsterdam & Receive a Bonus Gift PDF Print E-mail
Novell BrainShare is back and not just once, but twice. Novell surprised many of us when announcing that in 2010 their great BrainShare event will not only run in Salt Lake City (US) in March, but also in Europe. And more precisely, in wonderful Amsterdam (NL), a city full of surprising views, museums, music and much more. Of course the Open Horizons community will be very involved with this event and together with Novell we are planning quite a few surprising activities before and during this event.
 
Register via Open Horizons for BrainShare at this page - Receive a cool Bonus Gift Package!
 
Get Open Horizons Books for FREE @ BrainShare Amsterdam PDF Print E-mail
Yes, that is right! Novell has bought a large number of Open Horizons books and these will be offered as FREE gift to participants at BrainShare - for as long as stock will least. Early Bird Discount of 200 Euro is available until April 16, so hurry and register NOW for BrainShare Amsterdam to receive one of these cool books for FREE!
 
Introducing the Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack Technology Preview PDF Print E-mail
Be among the first to get your hands on this highly anticipated product! Novell is pleased to announce an open technology preview of the Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack, scheduled for availability mid-year. This product will synchronize GroupWise e-mail, calendar data and contacts with all ActiveSync-enabled devices—including the Apple iPhone. It will also serve as a replacement for GroupWise Mobile Server. To download the technology preview today, visit http://www.novell.com/mobilitypreview.
 
Spring Clean on Novell File Management Suite PDF Print E-mail
Clean up your file storage and reduce costs.
Reduce complexity and costs. With Novell File Management Suite you can turn your file storage chaos into organized efficiency. Order by 30 April next and receive a 15% discount.
 
Documents, presentations and spreadsheets, represent an organization’s precious intellectual capital, but they are also the fastest-growing data type within organizations, consuming storage space at faster rates for longer periods of time. The proliferation of this data creates storage management challenges that increase your administrative and infrastructure costs.
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Ron Hovsepian: Novell News Update PDF Print E-mail
Dear Customer:

I want to share with you an important announcement that Novell made today.

As you may know, on March 2nd, Elliott Associates, L.P. announced an unsolicited, conditional proposal to acquire Novell. Today we issued a press release announcing that our Board of Directors has concluded, after careful consideration, including a review of the proposal with its independent financial and legal advisors, that Elliott's proposal is inadequate and that it undervalues the Company's franchise and growth prospects.
 
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GroupWise 7 SP4 PDF Print E-mail
Novell released the latest and final support pack today for Novell GroupWise 7. It is Novell GroupWise 7.0.4 and it is available for immediate download.
 
GroupWise 7.0.4 is a compilation of all Hot Patches and Field Test Files since Novell released GroupWise 7.0.3. GroupWise 7.0.3 was released in early 2008 and since then customers have been able to download Hot Patches, updates and changes through regular support channels and their Novell Technical Services representative.
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Novell Releases Hosted Conferencing to Complete Collaboration Portfolio PDF Print E-mail
Novell today announced the availability of a hosted version of Novell Conferencing. This new conferencing solution enables users to conduct virtual meetings, demos and Webinars using a Web browser. With this Web conferencing technology, organizations can significantly reduce the cost and time required for face-to-face travel by instantly sharing documents, desktops, applications, Web pages, whiteboards, audio, video - even record meeting - without installing any software.
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Bill Pray on Elliott-Novell - What Might Happen to GroupWise PDF Print E-mail
Check out this blog by Bill Pray, previous GroupWise Product Manager, on the future of GroupWise. What-if...
 
The bid by Elliott for Novell has lead to speculation on what may happen should the buyout be successful. Blogs from Drue Reeves (Novell Going Private?) and Richard Jones (Elliott/Novell: Implications on SUSE) have highlighted their observations. Having been a former Novell employee and product manager for GroupWise, I want to take the opportunity to add my observations on what might happen to Novell’s communications and collaboration technologies should the buyout occur.
 
GroupWise has been a solid, mature, feature rich, enterprise solution for many years.
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Ron Hovsepian: Invitation for Brainshare EMEA PDF Print E-mail
Today Novell´s CEO Ron Hovsepian did send an email-invitation to all Novell customers for BrainShare EMEA 2010 in Amsterdam:
 
To Our Customers,

We heard you loud and clear at the Customer Advisory Board last year that BrainShare is a critical component of your overall education and training on all things Novell. Based on your feedback, we've streamlined BrainShare this year to make it a leaner, more focused, and more relevant technical conference.
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Novell update: Letter from Ron Hovsepian PDF Print E-mail
Dear Customer:

I wanted to contact you personally to address recent news about Novell.

Late Tuesday, March 2, Novell received an unsolicited, conditional proposal from Elliott Associates, L.P. to acquire Novell for $5.75 per share in cash. Elliott is an investment firm that holds shares of Novell stock. As you will see in our news release, we anticipate Novell's Board of Directors will review Elliott's proposal in consultation with Novell's financial and legal advisors. Beyond that, it is business as usual for us at Novell.
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Novell Teaming 2.1 is now Available! PDF Print E-mail
Announcing general availability of Novell Teaming 2.1. You can now download, upgrade and roll out the very latest version of Novell Teaming. Since Teaming 2.0 released last July, the engineering team has put together an exciting update to this piece of our collaboration portfolio.
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Open Horizons 2.0 PDF Print E-mail

 
Open Horizons BeNeLux 2.0
 
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Win a Exclusive Weekend for Two @ Pincoffs Suite Hotel PDF Print E-mail
The Pincoffs Suite Hotel is a small luxury hotel. It resides in a national monument built in 1879 in the area currently called Kop van Zuid, the trendy Rotterdam left bank. The former customs office is full of atmosphere and authentic details. The hotel offers you charm, space and comfort in our suites, luxury rooms, hotel bar and period rooms for meetings. The view of the river, the bridges and the skyline is breathtaking.
Register today to be entered into our drawing for a wonderful Weekend for Two @ Pincoffs - the best Suite Hotel in Rotterdam!
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Open Horizons Visit to RIM HQ – BES 5.0.1 for GW available in October?! PDF Print E-mail
 
When Erno looks at his large collection of PDA's and phones, he always remembers his first experience with a BlackBerry.  In those days it was really for the “happy few” and being able to even touch and use such a exquisite device with the full QWERTY keyboard made you forget all the clumsiness of some other devices. When Volkmar is looking at the latest BES 5.0.1 for GroupWise server, which is still in beta of course, he can not wait to see the response from his customers when he deploys it for them.
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Registration for EMEA Summit is now OPEN! PDF Print E-mail
Today, on April 30, on request of may people within the communit ("You are late this year?!") we have opened the registration for the EMEA Summit 2010, which will run in Vienna (AT) from Sunday November 28 until Wednesday December 1. And within a few minutes the first registration was already made by Peter Wachs  (DE) - finally after 5 years he has beaten Hans Prim (SE) in being "Number One"!
 
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The GroupWise Powerguide - Second Edition - Now Available @ Amazon PDF Print E-mail

The English version of The Groupwise Powerguide- Second Edition became available early May 2009. This completely new version contains a lot of tips and tricks about GroupWise covering versions 8.0 as well as 7.0. This book will take everyone who is already working with GroupWise to the next level. Now includes Business Scenarios and valuable content in 216 topics, all in more than 300 pages. Great value for money - guaranteed to optimize your investment in GroupWise - this book will make you and your organization more effective and efficient.
 
Buy this book to Support the Community - Profits will further strengthen Open Horizons.
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Webconferencing: Survey by Novell and Open Horizons PDF Print E-mail
Novell in cooperation with Open Horizons has created a survey regarding web conferencing. Because of the current economical climate web based conferencing solutions are getting on the radar of more and more customers. Reducing travel costs, saving time, and increasing productivity are the three common denominators. We would like to ask you to take a few minutes and join the survey. Out of all attendees one lucky person is going to win a brandnew Sony eBook reader. Join the web conferencing survey now....
 
PlateSpin Forge’s ahead in disaster recovery PDF Print E-mail
PlateSpin has announced the release of a disaster recovery hardware appliance, PlateSpin Forge, to protect physical and virtual server workloads. John Ko, product marketing manager for PlateSpin told CRN that PlateSpin Forge is the company’s first offering specifically targeting the disaster recovery market. He added that the purpose-built recovery solution includes prepackaged and preconfigured hardware, software and virtual infrastructure, addressing issues faced by both SMBs and enterprise. 
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US Supreme Court Won't Hear Microsoft's Novell Appeal PDF Print E-mail
The US Supreme Court has refused to hear Microsoft's appeal of Novell's multibillion-dollar antitrust suit against it. The news hit just as Novell's annual BrainShare user conference was getting starting. Basically a private replay of the Justice Department's suit against Microsoft, the case involves Novell's claims that Microsoft targeted WordPerfect and QuattroPro to protect its operating system monopoly.
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Novell - strong results as the company finally sees its efforts rewarded PDF Print E-mail
  
Last week Novell unveiled its result for the first quarter of fiscal 2008. Net revenue was $231m (including $7m positive impact from currency exchange rates). Income from operations was $8m ($24m non-GAAP or 10% of revenue, up from a negative 1% a year ago). Non-GAAP net income was $29m. Comment: Novell has spent the last few years pulling itself up and improving execution but had, until recently, very little to show for it. This is no longer the case. The last few quarters have been increasingly impressive with Novell starting to exceed consensus estimates, leading to a strong first quarter of fiscal 2008, with total revenue up 6% and product revenue up 9%.
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Novell Acquires PlateSpin for $205M PDF Print E-mail
 
 
Novell announced Feb. 25 that it will acquire Toronto-based virtualization management software and services provider PlateSpin Ltd. for $205 million in cash. It was the second acquisition Novell has revealed in 12 days. The Waltham, Mass.-based enterprise software maker bought open-source team collaboration software provider SiteScape -- founder of the ICEcore open-source collaboration project -- on Feb. 13.
 
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Novell acquires SiteScape PDF Print E-mail
  
Novell has acquired SiteScape, a provider of collaboration solutions and the founder of the ICEcore open source collaboration project. The merger between the two companies will create interoperable, open source and open standards-based workspaces to help with team productivity. Financial terms of the deal were not released but SiteScape would become a fully owned subsidiary of Novell and all the employees will fold into Novell's ranks. Also, the SiteScape brand will no longer exist as part of the acquisition.  
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vCard - an important addressbook standard PDF Print E-mail

vCard automates the exchange of personal information typically found on a traditional business card. vCard is used in applications such as Internet mail, voice mail, Web browsers, telephony applications, call centers, video conferencing, PIMs (Personal Information Managers), PDAs (Personal Data Assistants), pagers, fax, office equipment, and smart cards. vCard information goes way beyond simple text, and includes elements like pictures, company logos, live Web addresses, and so on.

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vCalendar - the way to exchange calendar data PDF Print E-mail

vCalendar defines a transport and platform-independent format for exchanging calendaring and scheduling information in an easy, automated, and consistent manner. It captures information about event and "to-do" items that are normally used by applications such as a personal information managers (PIMs) and group schedulers. Programs that use vCalendar can exchange important data about events so that you can schedule meetings with anyone who has a vCalendar-aware program.

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