Ray,

 

Your assessment is not entirely fair.  The older version of the client that you are using had very limited support for iCal.  The version of GroupWise that we have on our servers (and the client on our department's desktop) provides full iCal support.  Additionally, in the near future, you will be able to publish and subscribe calendars (including your own personal calendars) along with free/busy information.

 

And NO, you are NOT "locked" into using the GroupWise client in order to use your GroupWise account.  Other clients will work just fine.  Our department supports only the use of the GroupWise client because of support issues; that doesn't mean that other clients will not work with GroupWise.

 

For years, Novell has been providing products that adhere to open standards and operate on multiple platforms.  For instance, Novell GroupWise can operate on Linux and Windows servers as well as NetWare servers.  How many other email solutions do?  Novell products should at least be considered when investigating solutions no matter what environment(s) you manage.

 

...John

 

(Scott - our Breslin server has been online for over 354 days and the Kellogg server for a mere 218 days.)

>>> 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.
>