I just registered for Novell BrainShare 2010. It seems like FOREVER since March 2008, and I’m very excited to be able to be back at BrainShare again this year. I will probably be speaking again (but this hasn’t all been … Continue reading →
Last week, it seemed that all of the news that related Novell to Google was bad. The City of Los Angeles chose to move to Google Apps, rather than upgrade their GroupWise system to GroupWise 8. There was a lot … Continue reading →
As we discussed a few weeks ago, some of the upcoming changes to Novell’s support policies received some very pointed questions about the perceived quality of Novell’s products. Jeff Jaffe, CTO at Novell has responded. What do you think about … Continue reading →
Today we verified some problems that were reported to us (thanks Kevin!) that can affect an upgrade from GroupWise 7.03 specifically (and possibly older clients as well) directly to GroupWise 8.01. Here they are: If you upgrade the server POA … Continue reading →
I was alerted by a colleague today that blackholes.us, which went out of business a couple of years ago, is now returning all IP addresses back as spam. To be fair, blackholes.us isn’t doing anything! It’s the company that now … Continue reading →
Novell Knowledge Partners Program? What’s that, you ask? Well, for those of you who have known me many years, you will remember that I have been what was called a “Sysop” on the Novell Support Forums for about 13 years … Continue reading →
Now that GroupWise 8.01 has shipped and is “out in the wild” so to speak, a couple of issues have cropped up that we are adding to the errata pages for our GroupWise 8 Upgrade Guide and our Moving GroupWise … Continue reading →
As a follow-up to yesterday’s blog entry, in a somewhat stunning reversal, Novell has announced that it is changing its policy (that is technically unannounced at this point, but had been outed in a Novell Community Chat post on September … Continue reading →
Last week, Novell sent an email to its partners that has suddenly become a HUGE source of traffic on Novell’s Community Chat forum, as well as various mailing lists such as the NGWList, TTP, etc. The text of this email … Continue reading →
As we mentioned to you last month, the Caledonia Guide to Moving GroupWise was due out the first week of September. Well, here it is, September 7, and we’re ready to ship! I thank all of you who have pushed … Continue reading →