Dear all,

 

BrainShare Thursday, the morning after the party in the Delta Center and elsewhere in town. Always interesting to see how many people show up for your 9:00 AM session. Here's another day review.

 

Having a Ballroom almost filled with people at 9:00 AM, all of them interested in your session about PDA's, is rather rewarding, especially as this is the day after the party. The session went well, the little gimmicks included we're well received, the questions and the feedback were good. It's interesting to see how this mix of GroupWise Mobile Server (powered by Intellisync/Nokia), RIM Blackberry Enterprise Server, Notify Enterprise Server, Messaging Architects GWAnywhere, Omni Mobile Suite and some Toffa on top was digested as part of the breakfeast (not a typo ;-): mix it with a little bit of show and it goes down rather well.

 

By the way: Novell & Nokia, red N & blue N, N & N: intriguing...

 

After this session I had a little break, no booth today, so I had some time to talk to a lot of people. I had a meeting with the Nordic NUI's to discuss their fall event in Sweden, just after the Summit/GWAVACon, and also had a meeting with some other people from the USA and Canada to discuss possible GroupWise User Groups over here as well. More news will follow soon...

 

My second session of the day, always a bit messy because of the 3,5 kilo's rice used to demonstrated the problems of a growing GroupWise post office. Even more messy, because this time the Ballroom we used wasn't waterproof, so we added some water coming down from the roof and created some rice soup (really, it leaked in there!!!). Archiving and retention are always difficult subjects to turn to an attractive story, but the rice soup was a nice after lunch treat. The session was very well received and some people were literally sitting at the tip of the chair (and not because of the water dripping in ;-)

 

After the overview I (briefly) discussed relevant offerings of Computer Associates (Message Manager), GWAVA (Reload & Reveal), Intellireach (MX2020), Messaging Architects (GWarchive) and Nexic (Discovery), not in comparing the solutions (as they're incomparable), but rather as an introduction. I've already noticed many people have followed up on this later, either by e-mail to me or directly to the vendors.

 

This was another very interesting session, introduced by Bill Pray, one of the GroupWise Product Managers. The cool thing is the very strong combo of the Cisco IP-telephony offerings with the GroupWise backend and client, all brought together by GW-Unify. Very cool, resulting in a strong offering of voicemail in GroupWise connected to your Cisco IP-telephony system, al without any changes on the GW desktop and minor changes on the GW backend. Very interesting, I can;t wait to get my hands on a copy of this complete solution!

 

Today's events ended with the traditional "Meet the Experts" night, many people showed up and the experts where almost overrun. A good atmosphere, interesting food, all in all another successful gathering of minds. It was got to see that especially the GroupWise area was filled very well, probably one of the most crowded area's of this evening.

 

One more day to go, BrainShare is almost over. We'll deliver the BrainShare news soon right at the doorstep of more than 1.200 GroupWise enthusiasts in 15 countries during our GroupWiseR EMEA Tour, check it out at www.groupwiser.net/emea-tour

 

And of course we'll make even more news during our big GroupWise event on October 1-4, 2006 in Munich, Germany. check it out at www.groupwisesummit.net, more detailed information will follow soon.

 

Erno de Korte