Novell GroupWise 6.5
Overview
Thousands of organizations worldwide rely on Novell GroupWise to:
- Stay connected while ensuring security
- Improve access and control
- Break down information barriers and cut costs
Novell GroupWise 6.5—a member of the Novell workgroup solution—is a premier communication and collaboration tool. It provides an effective and innovative approach to collaboration services—an approach that delivers security, control and mobility, while reducing the cost of managing and maintaining essential communication and collaboration services. now available on Linux
Many organizations are moving to Linux and the open source computing environment to take advantage of the increased flexibility and lower total cost of ownership they offer. Now, GroupWise 6.5 is available on Linux* with the same rich functionality as on NetWare®. So organizations considering a move to Linux can take advantage of the many capabilities of GroupWise 6.5. Best of all, GroupWise 6.5 now includes both the NetWare version and Linux version for the same license fee as previously paid for the NetWare version alone. In addition, current GroupWise users can get the Linux version for a small media cost.
GroupWise 6.5 supports both SUSE* and Red Hat* Linux, the two leading Linux distributions. What's more, Novell recently acquired SuSE. That makes Novell the only vendor that sells and supports a world class Linux-based collaboration solution and also the underlying Linux operating system.
With GroupWise, you can embrace the Net knowing that you are protected by field proven security. So you can maintain secure, authenticated communications, including instant messaging, within your organization as well as with organizations and individuals outside your firewall.
GroupWise 6.5 also provides tight integration with leading anti-virus and anti-spam solutions. Working with partner products, it detects and eliminates viruses that might hamper productivity and impair business operations. Multiple levels of spam control restrict unsolicited bulk e-mail, so productivity isn't impacted by e-mail overload.
Built-in redundancy features, such as LDAP pooling, keep essential services available to your users even when system glitches or hardware failures occur. So your users stay productive and user satisfaction increases. work smarter. work together.
GroupWise expands the scope of where and how collaboration takes place, enhancing responsiveness and productivity across the Net. Its broad feature set includes integrated e-mail, instant messaging and scheduling, as well as task, contact and document management. And GroupWise works across traditional, Web-based and wireless clients. New tools help people manage their day-to-day activities more efficiently—organizing information in the way that best suits their preferences and working style.
Extensive mobile capabilities allow people to access resources with the type of device they prefer, whether that be a desktop or laptop computer, an Internet kiosk or one of the increasingly popular mobile devices, including Nokia* and Ericsson* cellular phones and handheld devices such as PalmPilot*, Pocket PC and RIM BlackBerry*. GroupWise 6.5 includes GroupWise Messenger, a secure instant messaging capability that dramatically enhances interaction among geographically dispersed teams without jeopardizing the security of information behind the firewall.
With its enhanced administrative tools, integration through open standards, scalability and flexible pricing options, GroupWise 6.5 gives you the best in communication and collaboration capabilities while minimizing the cost of implementing, managing and maintaining a high-performance system. Advanced technologies allow you to support many more users on a single server, reducing hardware acquisition and management costs. Industry leading administrative tools enhance productivity and reduce the cost of system administration.
As your organization evolves—whether through mergers, acquisitions, divestitures or internal consolidation—GroupWise smoothes the transition by enabling administrators to add and move blocks of users quickly and efficiently. Bottom line: GroupWise 6.5 for Linux reduces your total cost of ownership and improves your return on investment in communication and collaboration services.
In today's legal and regulatory environment, you need to respond immediately to requests for information contained in your e-mail system. GroupWise helps you meet regulatory requirements and support your corporate counsel in legal actions. Complementary solutions from Novell partners enable you to search your message store for specific words, phrases or attachments to locate essential information quickly.
GroupWise is a key component of the workgroup solution that offers innovative cross-platform network and collaboration services that enhance and unify all the pieces of your IT infrastructure.