Dear all,

 

BrainShare is well on it's way, here's some more news from day 2 as well as an important announcement about the Summit, so please read on!

 

As mentioned in yesterday's BrainShare update, GroupWise is certainly experiencing a positive upswing. The news around the Novell Open Workgroup Suite and the upcoming GroupWise Mobile Server have been received positively, especially also by press and analysts. And the many GroupWise Partners in the Solutions Lab certainly are very present as well, my estimate is that at least 1/3 of the partners in the lab are GroupWise related.

 

And then there's also this small but important GroupWiseR booth, next to our NUI friends. Very well visited, lot's of positive feedback. And especially the GroupWise Powerguide is well received as well, I can't wait until tomorrow, when I will be able to show the first paper copy to those that are interested. GroupWise is in a positive upswing, so lets strengthen that and enjoy the benefits of this: more noise around GroupWise everywhere, here at BrainShare and hopefully at home in the press as well.

 

A very interesting session, not a lot of slides, but the BrainStorm guys certainly showed a lot of (new) features in the different clients. GroupWise 7.0 really has a lot to offer on Win32, Linux, Apple and WebAccess and this well delivered session again showed what a rich environment GroupWise really is.

 

Phill Karren, GW Product Manager, delivered a successful GroupWise present & future session today to a packed ballroom, telling about the research about workgroup related issues, how people deal with mail and other stuff and how GroupWise should and will be connected to a lot of other solutions in the near future. Of course the GroupWise Mobile Server is part of that, but there's other visions and connections, like mySAP, Documentum and more down the road. He showed a clear future vision and got some interesting questions from the audience, but all in all very well done and interesting. I'm looking forward to see him deliver something like this during the upcoming GroupWiseR EMEA Tour soon. Make sure to visit and promote these events, it will certainly be very interesting to see him, Bill Pray (also GW Product Manager) or Ken Muir (Director of Engineering). Check it out at www.groupwiser.net/emea-tour!

 

I'm not certain if the number of GroupWise sessions is higher than the previous years, but my bet is that there have been more people attending GroupWise sessions than in years before; there is a lot of new excitement around GroupWise. Unlike the previous years I've not been able to visit many other GroupWise sessions, as I had to attend the GroupWiseR booth and prepare some other stuff. But there were lots of them, presented by speakers like Danita Zanre, Gregg Hinchmann and many more. During the day many people stopped by at our booth and I've received quite a lot of positive feedback on my session delivered yesterday.

 

Thanks to Novell this year we've been able to have a booth again, like in Barcelona, and that's a big success. Apart from me Tommy Mikkelsen, Arnaud Delin, John Lincoln and some other people have been representing GroupWiseR at this booth. And it was also cool to notice so many Americans and Canadians are interested in what GroupWiseR and the GroupWise User Groups are doing, they really want to have something like that in the USA and Canada as well. We'll see what will happen, but there might be some interesting news there soon.

 

We've also got fans in Brazil, Argentina, India, Japan and Australia, GroupWise is hot everywhere (shoudl I say: "again"?!) and that's good news! During the afternoon Jeff Hawkins visited our booth, he's on of the Novell VP's who's been instrumental in making sure we did get this booth at all. On behalf of the GroupWise community, thanks very much!

 

Now here's some cool news: the GroupWise EMEA Summit has been a hit these last two years already, but with BrainShare EMEA not being there anymore we've recognized the opportunity to create an even bigger event. And here in the USA we've seen two successful GWAVACon events these last two years, so the GroupWiseR initiative and GWAVA are happy to announce that they've bundled forces and together they will create the biggest GroupWise event ever. The event will be held from October 1 till October 4 in Munich, Germany, so the attendees can enjoy the Oktober-fest atmosphere as well. And we're certainly working on more, we're even thinking about combining this with a ZENWorks Summit, more at www.groupwisesummit.net, www.gwavacon.com and www.zenworker.net.

 

 

OK, that's it for now, make sure to check out www.groupwiser.net/emea-tour and register for this great series of events soon. I hope to see you there, have fun with GroupWise.

 

Kindest regards,

 

Erno de Korte