Friday, July 16, 2010

Novell's been busy!

If you haven't been around Novell lately, you may not be aware of all of their cloud security offerings.  You really should take a look at them.  There's some really cool stuff coming down the pipe.

GroupWise 8.0.2 has also been released - earlier than I thought it would.  Nicest part is we can use the 8.0.2 client against the 8.0.1 backend.which makes life a touch easier for me.  My next window for a big update is the day after Christmas, so having a client that may potentially fix a lot of the unusual issues we've been seeing is most welcome.

Public beta of the new Data Synchronizer for GroupWise for mobile devices is here as well.  Happy day for me, but may be a tad late for some of our users who've started forwarding all mail to gmail and sync'ing that way.

I'm hopeful that Novell can really turn this ship around, but I'm not holding my breath.  Based on our results with 8.0.1 and randomly crashing agents, I'm hesitant to say things will be much better.  Yep, from the one who bleeds Novell Red, I've become cynical.  I haven't migrated to the "dark side" just yet, but am actively going after my MCITP just to be more market-ready in the event of changes.

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