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this blog (http://ccsblog.burtongroup.com/collaboration_and_content/2010/03/elliottnovell-what-might-happen-to-groupwise.html) by Bill Pray (http://www.burtongroup.com/AboutUs/Bios/PrintBio.aspx?Id=169), 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 (http://dcsblog.burtongroup.com/data_center_strategies/2010/03/novell-going-private.html)?) and Richard Jones (Elliott/Novell: Implications on SUSE (http://dcsblog.burtongroup.com/data_center_strategies/2010/03/elliottnovell-implications-on-suse.html)) 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.

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.

Our sponsor GWAVA did set the final date for their GWAVACon EMEA conference. It is going to be held from the 23rd to the 26th of October in Berlin. More information to follow soon. Open Horizons will of course be present again at this event as well. So you might already put this event into your calendar.

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 (http://app.mktg.novell.com/e/er.aspx?s=1163 lid=2073 elq=558094b7e90547828736abeb2e2d9b30), 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.

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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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.

Canadian software vendor, Omni, developed Riva Identity Integration to allow users to leverage Active Directory as their GroupWise user management and authentication system. Riva transparently synchronises Active Directory user and mail group information to eDirectory and GroupWise. Instead of having to to use two user management applications – Microsoft Management Console (MMC) to manage users in Active Directory and ConsoleOne to manage GroupWise and eDirectory accounts – all user creation and management can be carried out in MMC.

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Welcome to another article about how Teaming is progressing with the release of Teaming 2.1. This week we will be covering the improvements that have been made to the tasks and calendar folders in Personal Workspaces in Teaming 2.1. Before we dive into talking about improvements, let's highlight some of the advantages of using the tasks and calendar features in Teaming.

GWAVA Technologies today announced that their online knowledge base received 1 million page views in 2009. GWAVA is an information security company, focusing on email, text message and instant message security. GWAVA's worldwide support, based in Orem Utah, supports thousands of companies around the world running GWAVA information security solutions.

Novell today announced the release of Novell® File Management Suite, an integrated file storage solution that provisions, moves, optimizes and reports on file storage based on user roles and customized business policies. For the first time, organizations, regardless of operating system or existing storage management solution, can intelligently manage file storage at its source, tying the file to the user for the entire data lifecycle. Providing organizations with a clearer picture of its data, Novell File Management Suite enables an organization to plan for and deploy an efficient and cost-effective storage infrastructure as well as execute on compliance and governance requirements.

A few months ago, Novell announced that a “new and innovative user experience” would play a key role in its vision for collaboration. In November, that innovative user experience—taking shape as Novell Pulse—was previewed to wide accolade at the Enterprise 2.0 show in San Francisco, California.

Posting from Ken Muir CTSO Collaboration at Novell on NGW-List: Four years ago, we entered into an OEM agreement with Intellisync which was the leader in mobile email/PIM sync. We created the GroupWise Mobile Server and gave it to our customers for free. This combined with our partnership with RIM brought to GroupWise customers the largest support of mobile devices on the market. When new devices came to market, Intellisync was first to support it.

Open Horizons Training (training) - cool, isn't? Many people have asked for such a training and therefore Open Horizons has asked Volkmar to develop this new course in cooperation with RIM and other people from the community. To be expected soon, just another example of some of the new projects which are in the pipeline! More at www.open-horizons.net/training (training)

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This book is based on a number of customer cases, which will guide you thru all the important features of Novell Teaming. All solutions described have solved real customer cases. Based on the experiences of the authors and many others in the Open Horizons community, in this non-tech book the authors describe how Teaming can be used to make your organization more effective and efficient. Buy this book to Support the Community - Profits will further strengthen Open Horizons.

This book is based on a number of customer cases, which will guide you thru all the important features of Novell Teaming. Although almost all organizations are fictional, the solutions which are described solved real customer cases. Based on the experiences of the authors and many others in the Open Horizons community, the authors describe how Teaming can be used to make your organization more effective and efficient. Buy this book to Support the Community - Profits will further strengthen Open Horizons.

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Many companies are looking for an affordable way to create a high availability environment for their virtual machines. You can create such an environment with the High Availability Extension, available as an add-on for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. In this book you will learn how to build this solution, using Xen virtualization, Heartbeat / Pacemaker high availability and cLVM volume manager. Buy this book to Support the Community - Profits will further strengthen Open Horizons.