Vertigo from GWAVA was developed by Roel Van Bueren and Ronald De Zwart.

The product isn't technically a replacement for Console One, but right now, in its current version it is doing a lot of the things that GroupWise administrators wish Console One would do for them.

The good news is that Vertigo added a Console One Snapin a few months back and can work seamlessly with Console One.

Radicati, a Messaging and Collaboration analyst firm, is doing a survey on the Collaboration Space.

Be sure to participate to show your support for GroupWise.

http://www.radicati.com/survey.asp

I'm conducting, through my corporation BlissPoint, a GroupWise Market Research Survey. Click here to participate and be entered to win 3G iPhone from Apple.

GroupWise Market Research Survey

I recently chatted with a GWAVA customer outside the United States about their hardware failing on a GroupWise Post Office that was nearly 200GB in size and how Reload saved the day. I'm being slightly vague on the details because we are working on getting the story published and I don't want to steal my own thunder...BUT...the story is too good to not say something.

Reload from GWAVA has been referred to as the Holy Grail of GroupWise. The reason it is called the Holy Grail is due to the unique architecture of GroupWise. Due to its method of storing and retrieving email messages, it makes it hard for GroupWise to recover a single message or an entire post office in an easy, quick way. Also, due to the vast number of files involved, traditional backup software struggles to handle the constant usage of GroupWise to secure a clean back up of the post office.

The Novell BrainShare keynotes are being broadcast live from Salt Lake City on GWAVA TV at www.gwava.com/gwavatv

Watch it now.

Richard

Latest reports, both public and private, coming out of Novell and GroupWise is that the product is seeing double digit revenue growth this past quarter. That is great news.

Also, Ferris Research is doing an online survey for email collaboration use. We are organizing a response to influence the report in a positive way for GroupWise.

Visit http://www.ferris.com/2008/02/20/survey-of-support-staff-size-for-exchange-and-notesdomino/ to participate in the 3 minute survey.

It will make a difference.

Richard Bliss
http://gwbliss.blogspot.com

Now that Novell has acquired SiteScape, it is time to discuss their strategy for moving forward with their Teaming + Conferencing product.

I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about this, which makes it hard to stay focused on the topic. For this discussion, I’m going to discuss what word Novell should own for T+C.

I believe that an idea is worthless without a plan for executing on the idea.

What word is Novell going to own with Novell Teaming + Conferencing.

I think Novell has a good shot at owning the word Teaming. They have built it right into the name of the product and no one else owns it at the moment.

In one of my previous posts I wrote about reading your email. Lance Bledsoe wanted to know how it is done. Here are some of his questions:

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Well I guess I can't say this is completely surprising, since I've always heard that this was going on, but it is kind of unsettling to read about.

I do have some questions about the technical details: If I send or receive an email message via my company's computer network, at what point exactly are the email messages visible to the Big Brother IT person? Do they reside on the company's outgoing mail server^{Wikipedia.">Wikipedia." class="glossary-indicator">i} (e.g., smtp.bigcompany.com)? Are copies made and archived from there? And what about incoming messages? And what about messages that I send or receive from a personal email account? Can they be read as well? What if I access my personal email account via a webmail application?