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Just to throw in my two cents worth, check out: http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/compare.html which provides a nice comparison chart of GroupWise 7 features to earlier versions. Also, with the new Outlook Connector, you can have users who are more familiar with Outlook continue to use it as their primary client software, even though it's talking to a GroupWise server on the back end. One major improvement, support for iCalendar format, making it easier to export/import appointments from other systems, as well as send appointment requests to people on non-GroupWise calendaring systems. I belive under the MSU ALA agreement with Novell, you can bundle several Novell services for a single per-user cost, regardless of how many servers you bring up using their software. Direct any specific questions you have about Novell license bundles under our Academic License Agreement to Al Bray over at Purchasing. I'm not running the Outlook Connector, but I believe that may be an additional purchase. What can I say, I'm a fan of GroupWise. I'm planning on migrating my GroupWise 6.5 server on Novell Netware to a GroupWise 7 server running on SUSE Enterprise Server 10 with Netware OES2 on top. If all goes well, I'll be moving all my core Novell servers to SLES 10/ OES2 in the coming year or so. Just my 2 cents worth... John A. Resotko Head of Systems Administration Michigan State University College of Law 208 Law College Building East Lansing, MI 48824-1300 email: [log in to unmask] Phone: 517-432-6836 Fax: 517-432-6861 Current Chairperson of the MSU Network Communications Community >>> Ray Hernandez <[log in to unmask]> 2/27/2008 4:02 PM >>> As a Groupwise(GW) user, I think it is just OK. Groupwise doesn't seem to support caldav. This is annoying to me because the biggest thing I use GW for is email and calendaring. It locks me into using the GW client. While the GW web client is, to me, preferable to using the desktop client. I find it lacking in customization. If we are serious about adhering to open standards, as I think we should, I don't see that GW offers us much more than Outlook/Exchange. I don't think GW is a bad piece of software, but it could be better. --Ray On Feb 27, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Scott Foreman wrote: > I missed this post ... I couldn't agree with Don more, GroupWise > has been the most stable, scalable email platform I could ever want > to administer. Run on SLES or OES2 makes it all the better. One of > our Novell servers has been up for over 200 days, the last time we > patched and rebooted was for the daylight savings update in October > or November. I also heard at a conference that if you pay for SLES > maintenance through Novell that you could install and run GroupWise > for free but this probably works differently since we have a site > license. The GroupWise 7.x web interface is very robust and easy to > use, also includes calendaring. >