The EMEA Summit is coming close. Lots of people are very very busy with organzing this fantastic training event around Novell (and Partner) products. Specially Corne, Diethmar, Erno, Marco and Paul are very busy these days. To create some fun for them (and us) I created a little nice video called the OH EMEA Summit 2009 HipHop. If you want to see these guys live, join our EMEA Summit in Vienna (29th of Nov. - 2nd of Dec.). Here is the link to the video - have fun.

Messaging Architects and Omni, recognized leaders in email management products and services, today (November 10, 2009) announced that Omni’s eControl console will support natively Messaging Architects' Email Risk Management and Compliance products. The enhancement will benefit M+Archive and M+Guardian customers with simplified administration management, provisioning and delegation of routine tasks. Designed to allow the delegation of simplified account management and provisioning to non-technical users, such as Human Resource or Help Desk personnel, eControl is compatible with GroupWise, eDirectory, Exchange, and Active Directory. Beyond faster and simpler management of routine tasks, eControl will also provide full auditing capabilities for all configuration changes - this is an important value-add and critical component of any Compliance initiative.

Have a look at these impressive pictures from GWAVACon 2009 in Berlin. It shows, why people feel it to be a kind of BrainShare EMEA. Of course I´m not 100 % "independend" on this topic. But GWAVACon has proven itself, that the concept is working. Getting together all the technical experts from Novell, GWAVA and other sponsors, putting some fun around it and you end up with a great community event. The Open Horizons meeting point was very well received and we had a very nice breakfast event together with Ken Muir and Johan Rosius. And I´m pretty sure, that we will have the same fun in Vienna at the Open Horizons EMEA Summit.

I´m an iPhone user and I really like this device. It has some disadvantages (of course) and is not the best business tool (BlackBerry is probably the best - never tried the Palm Treo). But my type of business is not doing email with a mobile device. I do my email mainly with my laptop, my PC or my netbook. My mobile device (= iPhone at the moment) makes sure, that my wife and kids (and of course my customers, partners and collegues) could reach me during travelling. My real business is mostly done in personal meetings. No mobile device or video conferencing tool could ever replace a personal meeting. But back to the main topic....

Ken Muir from Novell has been presenting Project "Cockpit" at GWAVACon in EMEA. I was very impressed - probably like all other attendees, partners and sponsors, which have not seen it before. Something new, something "sexy" is coming from Novell. And it was presented with a huge big bang - Novell executives showed how Pulse communicates with Google Wave at the Enterprise 2.0 keynote in San Francisco. If you have not heard of "Cockpit" or Pulse so far, have a look at the following video from Andy Fox, VP Engineering at Novell. Watch the video