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BES 5.0.1 Public Beta - Announced by Alex Evans (Novell) |
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 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! |
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 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 |
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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 |
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 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 |
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 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! |
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Get Open Horizons Books for FREE @ BrainShare Amsterdam |
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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! |
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Introducing the Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack Technology Preview |
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 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. |
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Spring Clean on Novell File Management Suite |
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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 |
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 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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 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 |
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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
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Bill Pray on Elliott-Novell - What Might Happen to GroupWise |
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 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 |
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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 |
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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! |
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 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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Registration for EMEA Summit is now OPEN! |
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 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 |
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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 |
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 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.... |
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PlateSpin Forge’s ahead in disaster recovery |
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 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 |
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Novell - strong results as the company finally sees its efforts rewarded |
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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 |
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 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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GroupWise is een wel bekende
a well established and highly popular enterprise
communication and collaboration system that provides organisations with
e-mail, calendaring and scheduling, Instant Messaging, task management,
contact management, and document management features. Desktop GroupWise
clients are available for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh operating
systems and a sophisticated thin client is compatible with all modern
Web browsers.
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South African Dept. of Home Affairs Taps Novell for Worldwide Collaboration on Linux |
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WALTHAM, Mass. -- April 3, 2006 -- Novell and the South African
Department of Home Affairs have announced the launch of a global
project to deploy the Novell(R) GroupWise(R) collaboration solution
running on SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server at each of the department's
635 foreign missions, border posts, and local offices. The
project represents one of the biggest Linux-based solutions in the
South African national government. As a result, South Africa's
Home Affairs Department gains a reliable, secure collaboration platform
that leverages the low cost and flexibility of open source.
"We need follow-the-sun technology, since wherever the sun goes, a Home
Affairs official wakes up with the intent of rendering a service" said
Kgabo Hlahla, Deputy Director General of Information Systems at the
Department of Home Affairs. "Our officials need access to
information and communications capabilities at their fingertips. Since
we are also dealing with confidential and private information, security
is a key priority."
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eWeek.com about GroupWise 7 |
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 eWeek.com about GroupWise 7
Like IBM's Lotus Notes and Microsoft's Exchange, Novell's
GroupWise client/server architecture provides an excellent environment
for managing collaboration on tasks and documents. Novell has done a
good job of refining the user interface in this release of GroupWise,
making information more accessible and easier to organize. Client
support for Mac OS X and Linux operating systems sets GroupWise apart
from its competition, as does support for both Outlook and Evolution
clients.
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Butler Technology Audit on GroupWise 7 |
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Butler Technology Audit on GroupWise 7
 Novell GroupWise is a well established and highly popular enterprise communication and collaboration system that provides organisations with e-mail, calendaring and scheduling, Instant Messaging, task management, contact management, and document management features. Desktop GroupWise clients are available for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh operating systems and a sophisticated thin client is compatible with all modern Web browsers. On the server-side, GroupWise is supported on NetWare, Linux, and Windows operating systems, or any combination thereof. GroupWise 7 signals a fresh lease of life for what is clearly a very capable product, and Novell’s commitment to support the current offering well into the next decade will provide existing users of this product with much needed confidence. GroupWise remains well supported by Independent Software Vendors, with companies such as Research In Motion (BlackBerry), extending the product’s core functionality to meet a broad range of business requirements. Organisations currently using GroupWise, but considering alternative products, should engage with Novell and its partners (or download an evaluation version) to assess the value this new release could offer.
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FREE download - unique GroupWiseR quotes |
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You can find more information about our free GroupWiseR Quote Service at:
http://www.open-horizons.be/gwquote/GroupWiseR-Quote.htm |
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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.
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. 
