Novell Inc is lining up updates to its GroupWise and SuSE Linux Openexchange server collaboration software for the new year, including incorporating its iFolder technology with GroupWise and separating SLOX from the Linux operating system.
Novell plans collaboration software updates
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I’ve been following Groupwise 7 for some time quite closely and the features look very encouraging. A quick run down of things discussed in this article and not:
-iFolder integration: Very exciting feature that allows you to keep files, emails, contacts, etc associated with each other and very portable.
– SOAP access: Makes it much easier for any program to connect with groupwise since it uses this standard. I sincerely hope we see integration with Mozilla thunderbird and such, since it shoudl be much easier to implement. (and they can now copy over Evolutions code as much as possible)
– Improved Client: If you’ve used GW this is easily the worst part about it. They haven’t shown much on this but early screenshots showed a multipayne, more functional, client.
– Built in Palm and Pocket PC support.
– Much more functionality accessible through the API’s.
– IM client with muti-protocol support (thanks to GAIM)