In this Open Horizons Magazine we show how collaboration strengthen you and your organization, our cover shows one of the results of team efforts. Subscribers of the magazine can login above to access the following documents:

 

11 Novell Identity Manager and GroupWise 8 - Cobus Burgers - Subscribers ONLY

18 Life of a Sysop - Tommy Mikkelsen - Subscribers ONLY
20 Teaming + Conferencing Q&A - Marcel Ramaker - Subscribers ONLY
22 GroupWise 8 Why change - Diethmar Rimser - Subscribers ONLY
28 Testing the best File System for GroupWise - Sander van Vugt - Subscribers ONLY
34 Virtualising GroupWise on Novell SLES Using XEN Hypervisor - Walter Lucero - Subscribers ONLY
38 GroupWise 8 and ConsoleOne - Paul Van der Cruyssen - Subscribers ONLY
41 GroupWise Q&A - Robin Redgrave - Subscribers ONLY
43 GroupWise 8 Linux Client, What's New - Paul Van der Cruyssen - Subscribers ONLY

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Is change really needed? Well, almost all news channels tell us change is indeed required: the economic crisis forces many of us to make changes; oil prices  have been going up and down again, showing the need to change our fuel consumption and car manufacturers all over the world suffer when trying to adapt to new conditions. Amidst all these big and global changes, within the Novell community we need to change as well, as the cancellation of BrainShare 2009 clearly demonstrates.

The paradox of information is that the more we produce, the more we have to control. Collaboration and infrastructure solutions from Novell empower users to negotiate this conflict on their own terms, enabling creativity while mitigating risk. Since Stewart Brand published The Whole Earth Catalog (which some say was the conceptual forerunner to the World Wide Web) in 1968, we have seen wave after wave of advancements in our ability to produce and share information. Local area networks of PCs have grown into a worldwide network of connected devices of all kinds. Simple file sharing and e-mail have grown into instant and personalised communication capabilities.

Working with Novell products is like going to an AA meeting. Everyone in the room knows why you’re there, but no-one on the outside has a clue what you’re doing. Working with Teaming this case holds even more. So I will try to explain why we decided to use Teaming.

“Why can’t I use GroupWise at home?� is a question that is often heard, usually in connection with “…since I’m using it at work as well…�. The idea of using GroupWise@Home has been around for quite some time and long before the arrival of GroupWise 8 this has lead to several activities in the GroupWise community. One of them was the great GroupWise@Home survey, of which some results have already been presented by Richard Bliss in the Summer-
2008 issue of this magazine. This article dives in deeper with questions such as is it wanted, who by, why, what and when? It is based on the feedback from more than 1,000 participants of the survey. We also introduce the team which is actually working on the creation of GroupWise@Home.

Many people complain about the lack of integration between GroupWise (and other Novell Products) and third party software. At a certain level it’s true that some other solutions have more integrations, but there are a lot of products that do integrate well with GroupWise. If you are looking for help desk solution then ‘everything HelpDesk’ from GroupLink, can help you. It has excellent integration with GroupWise (and ZENworks).

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Messaging Architects and Novell have created the new GroupWise Stubbing Application Programming Interface (API), a publicly available programming interface. This will allow third-party organisations to improve integration of their archiving products, thereby providing a more robust solution for overall system management while eliminating the risks of email retention non-compliance.

By the time you read this article the GroupWiseR initiative has probably celebrated it’s 5th birthday – I remember its beginnings clearly. On February 25, 2004 a large group of people gathered in a room at the Novell office in Düsseldorf (DE) for the first GroupWiseR meeting. One of the participants in that meeting was
Howard Tayler, the Novell Product Manager for GroupWise. He is a skillful cartoonist and during that meeting he made a very nice cartoon of me flying on my BlackBerry. Almost 30 people spent one or more days of their private time, as well as money, to fly to Germany just for this first GroupWiseR meeting.

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