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EMEA Tour on Thursday May 21
The EMEA Tour 2009 will be
organized again by Open Horizons Africa, Novell and the international Open Horizons community. On Thursday May 21 we will offer a very interesting day about how Novell can help you to improve your business using solutions like Novell ZENworks, SUSE Linux Enterprise, OES, Teaming + Conferencing and GroupWise. As a follow up, you might also be interested to join us for Hands-On Labs at the African Summit or any of our other Regional Summits. |
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Novell, Open Horizons and partners will help you to set the most efficient pace with the EMEA Tour:
• Boost workforce productivity with the latest personal and team collaboration tools
• Trim infrastructure costs with proven networking, storage and cross-platform management services
• Raise the bar on security with innovative solutions for network access and endpoint management
• Extend limited IT resources with automated identity, storage and access management processes
After this event, you can learn even more during the hands-on Open Horizons Summits. It's all part of our charge to help you set a winning pace for tackling the IT challenges you face. |
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Registration & Information |
 Innovation HubMark Shuttleworth Street
Pretoria, South Africa
T +27-12-844-0038
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Normal Participation Fee is ZAR 500, however participation is FREE if you become a 2009 member of Open Horizons Africa.
Registration is handled by Open Horizons in cooperation with Open Horizons Africa, a local group of Novell enthusiasts in
Africa.
Contact information:
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8:30 |
Registration & Coffee |
Thursday May 21
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Please note: this schedule is not final yet and can be changed without notice - check back regularly for updates! |
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T.b.d. |
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Cobus Burgers
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Johann Els - Novell SA |
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Coffee
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Christian Reeves |
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Johann Els - Novell SA |
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12:40 |
New ZEN 10 Integration with GroupLink's everything HelpDesk |
GroupLink |
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Lunch & Meet the Partners |
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Paul Van der Cruyssen
& Cobus Burgers
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Freddy Mahhumane |
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Tea & Meet the Partners |
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Hushmeera - Novell |
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Novell |
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Closing, drinks & more |
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Join our African Summit on May 22 and 23
On May 22 and 23 Open Horizons will organize the African Summit, offering Hands-On labs about ZENworks, SUSE Linux Enterprise, GroupWise and Teaming + Conferencing. These labs will be presented
by local and international trainers. More info here. |
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A growing number of partners have recognized the
strengths of ZENworks, GroupWise, Teaming + Conferencing and other Novell solutions. They add value with
solutions for Anti-Virus/SPAM, Development Tools, Archiving and much more.
Together with you these partners make the Novell community one of the most
interesting and lively in the market. Click here to find out more about these
partners.
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| Cobus Burgers - South Africa |
 Cobus Burgers has been involved with GroupWise support
since 1992 in the days of WordPerfect Office. With 14 years of experience on GroupWise he´s still going
strong and he has been involved with most GroupWise deployments in South
Africa. Today he runs his own
consultancy company that specialises in large scale GroupWise deployment
and support, including custom build GroupWise document management
solutions. His company NetCB has a team of
GroupWise specialists who service about 200
000 GroupWise users in South Africa and most of the document management implementations
on GroupWise have been implemented by this team.
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| Erno de Korte - the Netherlands |
 Erno has been supporting GroupWise since it was still called
WordPerfect Office, with a special interest in integration of document management,
workflow, CRM and PDA's. As an MCNE and
MCNI, he has delivered training and consulting throughout the world. Erno has
been a speaker on BrainShare, Summits and NUI
events. Erno has been one of authors of the Novell Press "GroupWise 7.0
Administrator Solution Guide" and the lead author of “The GroupWise
Powerguide". Erno has also written many articles for several
magazines and is one of the initiators of the Open Horizons magazine. | |
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Hendrik de Bruin - South Africa
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 Hendrik is the Director of Enterprise Support services at NetCB Solutions. Prior to joining NetCB Solutions Hendrik was the Technical Services Manager of two other Novell Business Expert Partners within South Africa. Hendrik has been a driving force in some of the country's largest Identity Management, GroupWise, ZENworks, Linux and eDirectory deployments, either during the technical implementation, the design or the project management phases. Hendrik has been involved with Novell technologies for the past 7 Years, and has presented at various other technology conferences such as Novell Brainshare. | |
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Johan van Zyl - South Africa
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 Johan started his programming career in his first year at University in 2002 while doing his Bachelors in Information Technology. After completing his degree in 2005, he enrolled for his Masters degree in Information Technology at the University of Pretoria. Johan is actively involved in GroupWise development and has led the NetCB developer team in completing a comprehensive GroupWise and Documentum DMS integration. He has since been leading the project on GroupWise DMS SOAP development on the Linux desktop. | |
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| Paul Van der Cruyssen - Belgium |
 Ten years ago Paul Van der Cruyssen had to install
his first e-mail system, and it was ... GroupWise. Love at first sight!
After this installion he installed, migrated and supported small and
big groupware systems. Paul works as an independent consultant. As a
true believer he installed the first GroupWise on Linux in Belgium. If
there's time, then Paul is also active as a beta tester (iFolder,
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