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The Opportunity

Customers are increasingly looking for tools that will help make their users more productive. In fact, recent research from CIO magazine suggests that nearly 46 percent of organizations are planning to increase spending on collaboration in 2008. What this means for you is a tremendous opportunity to bring team collaboration tools to your customers.

Novell Teaming: Team Collaboration at Its Best

Enter Novell Teaming. Novell Teaming is the next-generation collaboration tool that connects users with the content they need to do their jobs. Users can create workspaces and invite other members to participate—both from within or outside organizational boundaries. Users can also form virtual teams to securely manage, share, locate and access documents, calendars, discussion forums, wikis and blogs.

Get Prepared to Serve Your Customers

Now is the perfect time to test drive Novell Teaming. By deploying and using Novell Teaming, you learn about the product and are able to better serve your customers. In the materials below, you'll find a VMware virtual machine image, installation instructions, documentation, screen shots and helpful use-case videos to get you started. Use these materials to pilot Novell Teaming in your organization.

• Pre-installed VMware image (This is a large file and will take time to download)
• VMware installation instructions
• VMware installation video tutorial
• Video: Introduction to Novell Teaming
• Video: Custom Workspace Templates
• Video: Forms and Workflows
• Novell Teaming documentation

Visit enablement central for training materials to help you sell, deploy and support Novell Team Productivity solutions more effectively.

Download Licenses for Internal Use

When you're ready to download your 20 free licenses, simply click the ”download licenses” link below. This is a full, 20-user license of Novell Teaming for you to use within your organization (it is not for your customers).

• Download licenses (requires PartnerNet membership*)

*If you're not a member of the PartnerNet program, sign up for free by visiting www.novell.com/partners/join.jsp. You will be asked to create a Novell Login account before you can choose the appropriate partner program for your business. The Novell Reseller Community is the base partnership level that is free to join.

Promote the Novell Teaming Starter Pack to your Customers
In order to help you acquire new Novell Teaming customers, we have made the
Novell Teaming Starter Pack available to customers worldwide. All information
is available at: www.novell.com/teaming/starterpack. You can tell your
customers about this program, order the Starter Pack for them and help them
evaluate the solution."