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Novell announced today the immediate availability of GroupWise 8.0.3 HP1. This is the latest support pack for the GroupWise 8 product line and can be downloaded immediately. In addition, we are also releasing an update for the GroupWise Mac client!

We were checking out the keywords people regularly search for on Novell.com (using our site search as well as Google), and spotted a recurring desire to know how to set a vacation rule. This is no great surprise. We all love to take vacations, and particularly love to let our co-workers know that we are taking them. This is one of life's simple pleasures. And to make it even more pleasurable, GroupWise 2012 has vastly streamlined the way you set it all up.

What has the GroupWise team been up to for the last several months? Combing through customer feedback collected through Cool Solutions, events, and face-to-face meetings with organizations around the world. The result? A more rich understanding of what you need from the product...and a more detailed plan for delivering it. Read the second in this series of posts to find out what's most important to the GroupWise customer base and how this data is driving our product plans.

Novell releases latest update for Novell Data Synchronizer! Get the latest mobility release that further supports your users and their devices!

Interested in learning how you can include your GroupWise Distribution Lists in Novell Vibe?

In 1971, the first ever email was sent. Just forty-one years later, email is the industry standard for corporate communication, with the average corporate user sending and receiving 112 emails per day. With this communication tool so critical to any business’s bottom line, the list of valid reasons to disrupt it are few and far between. Enterprises considering migrating from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange should consider what it means in terms of costs and business disruption. It’s not just about the hardware and licensing, IT needs to consider the IT opportunity cost as well as overall user productivity.

With Support Pack One for GroupWise 2012 on the horizon, Training Services has committed to updating the GroupWise Administration courses and for the next few months is encouraging customers to take training by offering a discount for the virtual online courses.

We recently asked Cool Solutions readers to tell us what they love about Novell, and how they've managed to keep Novell in their organization over the years, despite fierce competition and changes in fashion.

The results revealed a unique loyalty to the classic Novell product lines, and a highly pragmatic line of reasoning: if it works, why replace it?

Here is a nice sampling of responses, from people who have come to rely on Novell's technologies to make life easier for end users and IT alike.

We’re pleased to announce that Novell Vibe 3.3 is being released today, amidst a groundswell of growing customer interest.