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Novell Teaming 1.0 SP3 and Conferencing 1.0.1

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9 July 2008 - 3:44pm
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Novell is pleased to announce the availability of Novell Teaming 1.0 SP3 and Conferencing 1.0.1. The Novell Teaming 1.0 SP3 is an update to Novell Teaming 1.0 and the Novell Conferencing 1.0.1 is an update to Novell Conferencing 1.0.

This new Teaming service pack delivers a brand new GUI installation program. It is no longer necessary to modify the installer.xml file prior to running the installation program. A new GUI interface has been created that will modify the install.xml file for you during the installation.

The new service packs contain many fixes to Novell Teaming + Conferencing.

For more details, please read the change log from the Novell Download website  . Choose "Teaming + Conferencing" as the product, click on "search" then click on the "patches" tab.


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Novell T&C Dependencies

Submitted by cscottselero on 23 January 2009 - 9:32am.

There a very strict dependencies on the Novell T&C for both the Server and the Client. I can understand the dependencies for the Server and for Novell to offer support only for SLED/Windows XP/Vista. But to not provide a client for the OSS Community is not a good option.

Since the T&C product is based upon OSS, and Novell sponsors an OSS community for their own OS, One might reason that Novell might actually provide resources to the OpenSuSE community to allow, at a very minimum their Open Source Platform, for something as commonly and often used as the messaging client.

I'm sure the underlying complexities of the architecture results in this not being as easy as it sounds, but let's face it. T&C is not going to break in and displace a lot of MS or IBM/Lotus solutions in many of the large Enterprises. If it's going to break in to the corporate environment, It will do so starting in the SMB market. In todays environment the SMB's watch every line item closely, which predicates them to use fine alternatives such as OpenSuSE or FC on the Desktop to minimize costs and allow them to invest their few IT dollars on extremely critical systems for products like SLES.

Long story short, I took the time to register the T&C Starter Pack with our VAR because; the price was right (Free 20 Users), it appeared to be a tool that we could leverage today and build upon as the company prospers. And to understand, install and configure the server side products. (BTW, The Documentation needs improvement as well)

But unfortunately because of these strict dependencies on the client OS, it is not going to be a viable solution for us, as I mentioned before, we have a myriad of clients that need to supported. MAC OSX, FC9, Windows XP/Vista, OpenSuSE 11.. Again, I realize that the expense for Novell to support all of these clients is probably not financially feasible (other then the Mac, MS and SLED). But why not at least let the community support the client for their OSS offerings?

Anyway, That's my rant. If you have a completely standardized environment for your desktops i.e. SLED10 or XP/Vista this looks like the product is feature rich, if your an OSS or deviate from those standards, well I'm not sure I would even bother. .

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