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

Saturday evening September 19 at 21:32 on the German autobahn: while driving the Open Horizons camper and passing a rather slow car, when switching to the left lane suddenly with a big bang the left rear tire blows away. The camper starts wobbling and by just managing to keep some control, it first hits the left guardrail, then swerves to the right into the side of the other car and ends up against the right guard rail. The first impulse is to check on the people in the other car, but they seem to be OK. Then it occurs to me that cars are still passing us very fast and you hear them hitting debris on the road.

You've been waiting, but here it is. Check out this blog post by Alex Evans on the upcoming ActiveSync solution!

Gert from GWCheck.com created a new page with GWCheck's overview of GW FreeWare.

Last year it has been a big shock for me, that Novell cancelled BrainShare 2009. Nothing did stop me from going to Salt Lake City to "celebrate" this wonderful event in this beautiful city. Last week Novell (officially) announced, that there will be a new BrainShare in SLC again. Novell is changing the concept and is going back to its roots. Please visit http://www.novell.com/brainshare to get more information. Open Horizons is already discussing with Novell to have a booth/meeting point at this conference. Hope to see all of you in SLC again.

Good news: as the beta program ended last week, Support Pack 1 for GroupWise 8 is now available for download. Many people have been waiting for the release of this support pack, to fully deploy GroupWise 8 in their organization.

I got access to a very interesting video presentation from Kent Erickson (Senior Vice President & General Manager Workgroup Solutions) and Ken Muir (Chief Technology & Strategy Officer Workgroup Solutions) which I would like to share with you. Kent and Ken are explaining Novells collaboration strategy including the cockpit project, which is driven by Ken Muir. Really exiting stuff. Have a look at the video here. By the way, Ken Muir is going to be Novells key note speaker at GWAVACon EMEA in Berlin.

Time to Upgrade!