Novell Opens the Enterprise for Cross-Platform Collaboration

Novell Opens the Enterprise for Cross-Platform Collaboration

Novell today announced open beta availability of its latest version of the most secure and reliable collaboration platform in the industry, Novell® GroupWise 7. GroupWise 7 features advances for end users such as integrated e-mail and instant messaging, enhanced Outlook support and a pre-bundled SUSETM LINUX Enterprise Server. Unlike Microsoft Exchange, GroupWise runs on multiple operating system platforms. As a result, customers can reduce costs and increase productivity using GroupWise 7 to govern and protect their mission-critical collaboration functions.

“Novell’s commitment to supporting GroupWise through 2015 is a strong signal to customers GroupWise can be counted on today and into the foreseeable future,” said Mark Levitt, vice president for Collaborative Computing at IDC. “GroupWise’s availability on Linux, in addition to other platforms, offers customers a real choice for firms looking beyond Windows.”

GroupWise 7 lets end users adapt the client to how they work in order to optimize their productivity and efficiency. Enhancements include integration between e-mail and instant messaging so users can see in an e-mail whether the sender is currently online, allowing them to move to IM to immediately resolve long e-mail conversations. In addition, a new “home” view summarizes a user’s most pertinent information at a glance, multiple calendars for a single user make it easier to manage multiple projects, and a quick navigation bar helps end users jump to the places they use most through a simple, one-click interface.

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