Open Horizons

Today, Novell announced that its Data Synchronizer product is now shipping with a GroupWise connector. Specifically this means that Novell GroupWise (http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/) now syncs to Microsoft SharePoint (http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/Pages/default.aspx) and other third-party applications including Salesforce.com and SugarCRM.

GWAVACon information and registration here..... (http://www.etouches.com/berlin2010)

Novell announced SUSE Studio has been granted the 2010 American Business Award for Best New Product or Service * Computer Hardware or Services. SUSE Studio is a free, Web‑based solution that allows users to quickly build complete software appliances in just minutes. SUSE Studio allows for mass customization and provides a bridge to the cloud, enabling software vendors and end users to build unique yet fully supported configurations of the operating system that run in physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Novell announced SUSE Studio has been granted the 2010 American Business Award for Best New Product or Service * Computer Hardware or Services. SUSE Studio is a free, Web‑based solution that allows users to quickly build complete software appliances in just minutes. SUSE Studio allows for mass customization and provides a bridge to the cloud, enabling software vendors and end users to build unique yet fully supported configurations of the operating system that run in physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Dean Lythgoe, Director Engineering GroupWise at Novell, posted some information about the availability of the new Datasynchronizer within his Novell blog.....

For registration click here.... (https://www.etouches.com/berlin2010)

Everybody is so exited about the soccer world championship in South Africa. Not all europeans like the Vuvuzela-noise as you are unable to hear anything else. The south africans - I just read an article - are very unhappy about the critizism and want to even bring more of these devices to the next game. One question towards my english friends: Isn´t the golf course the better place for a greenkeeper ? Anyhow, I would like to get your input for the soccer poll on our website. Have fun the next couple of weeks. Let the best team win and let South Africa enjoy the party.

Great news to share this week. I (Alex Evans, Novell) got a call from my counterpart at RIM and they are releasing a public beta of their BES 5.0.1 for GroupWise. We have been running 5.0.1 in house for a number of months as part of the early adopter program, so we have been validating it against the latest GroupWise agents.

Erno (training/trainers/erno-de-korte)) problem when they stand before their walk-in dresser in the morning - what should I wear today? I just realized us males have similar problems: which BlackBerry or other device will I wear today? And this is just a small subset om my collection of 30+ devices ;-)

BrainShare Amsterdam is Running Crazy - in many different ways actually. First of all, yesterday (Tuesday May 18) appr. 30 people gathered at 18:00 for the Open Horizons Half Marathon - a beautiful run thru the historic city of Amsterdam - past the National Monument on the Dam, the Rijksmuseum, the Red Light district, the Vondelpark and many other beautifull spots - all linked into a fantastic track created by Sander van Vugt (NL). I joined that run myself and while Sander leaded the pack, I was happy to stay at the end of the group to make we did not loose to many runners along the way. And I was not afraid tho admit that I was the last to finish - after all it was Fun2Run.

BrainShare Amsterdam is Running Crazy - in many different ways actually. First of all, yesterday (Tuesday May 18) appr. 30 people gathered at 18:00 for the Open Horizons Half Marathon - a beautiful run thru the historic city of Amsterdam - past the National Monument on the Dam, the Rijksmuseum, the Red Light district, the Vondelpark and many other beautifull spots - all linked into a fantastic track created by Sander van Vugt (NL). I joined that run myself and while Sander leaded the pack, I was happy to stay at the end of the group to make we did not loose to many runners along the way. And I was not afraid tho admit that I was the last to finish - after all it was Fun2Run.

Novell Conferencing—a cost-effective, easy-to-use web conferencing solution—is now available (http://www.novell.com/products/conferencing/). Novell Conferencing helps organizations reduce travel costs by instantly sharing documents, web pages, whiteboards, audio and video—even recording meetings—without any participant software to install. Novell Conferencing is also the only solution that integrates with Novell GroupWise. While users are in their GroupWise mailbox, they can simply click on a Novell Messenger (formerly GroupWise Messenger) icon to schedule or instantly launch a web conference.

NGW List (http://marc.info/?l=ngw m=127358345525339 w=2) : Just an FYI. In GroupWise 8, there is a registry setting that turns off the Document folder in the Windows GroupWise client.

Read more.... (http://www.omni-ts.com/web-management/)

Today, on April 30, on request of may people within the communit ( You are late this year?! ) we have opened the registration for the EMEA Summit 2010, which will run in Vienna (AT) from Sunday November 28 until Wednesday December 1. And within a few minutes the first registration was already made by Peter Wachs (DE) - finally after 5 years he has beaten Hans Prim (SE) in being Number One !

SOLD OUT! Indeed - BrainShare Amsterdam has been sold out! I mentioned last week only a limited set of seats was still available and now it is done deal - sold out completely ...

SOLD OUT! Indeed - BrainShare Amsterdam has been sold out! I mentioned last week only a limited set of seats was still available and now it is done deal - sold out completely ...

The open technology preview Novell announced at BrainShare U.S. has been extremely successful. As of April 19, Novell had 1,522 downloads and very productive discussion taking place in the Novell forums. As a reminder, the technology preview--as well as available supporting resources--can be found at http://www.novell.com/mobilitypreview.

Well, after being stuck in Cape Town for several days due to the volcanic problems, I was really looking forward to go home again. Just to clean out all the volcanic ashes and to get on with my work - preparing new events and working on many other Open Horizons projects. Anyway, my trip home certainly became quite an adventure - just an good mixture of luck, bluff and loyalty should help me to get home even in these difficult conditions.

Still stuck in Cape Town, it is getting colder here. Also, I now have 3 different plans to travel home. And although normally I enjoy being abroad quite a lot, in this situation going home is indeed tempting. As some planes towards Europe are flying again, I hope to be back soon. And oh boy, are these soccer fans arriving in June and July for the World Championships in for a surprise here in Cape Town - this is such an interesting place, but it will be winter by then...