Dear all,
This is the last day of BrainShare and traditionally this day starts with another keynote. We've seen some interesting demonstrations of several solutions and one of the nice things was of course the Student Video Competition, they showed many interesting videos promoting Novell solutions. We had a very cool demo from Miguel de Icaza presenting the Mono, a very cool development platform. It's perhaps the most controversial project in the open source world, but this mostly stems from misunderstanding: Mono is an open source development platform based onn the ideas of Microsoft's .NET framework, but greatly improving this in many ways.
Miguel shared some of the results in a demo and it’s truly amazing to see how easily you can create some very cool applications running on (almost) any hardware platform and OS, including "odd" ones like S390. The demo with the map showing all the churches in Salt Lake City was run on many of these platforms and the result was, as to be expected, a very "pink" map of the region, pink being the color of the dots indicating a church building.
Next on the agenda was Nat Friedman again, he shared some of his insights in a live demo of many of the wonderful enhancements that we will see in the collaboration space. He showed some of the results of the Hula project and many of these results will somehow be used in products like GroupWise as well. One of the new features of Sequoia will be "presence awareness": for example, if you open an e-mail from someone you can immediately see if he’s online and start a chat session, very slick!
I’m very glad that Nat Friedman has been so kind to join the GroupWiseR EMEA Tour events in Germany and the Netherlands, it will certainly be fun to see this kind of things at these events as well.
*** TUT 237 - Successful GroupWise Clustering Part 2 ***
Gregg Hinchmann and Ed Hanley delivered the second part of their series of sessions about clustering, I think they both do a great job. Unfortunately I had to leave early, but they deliver many interesting details, too much to cover in this brief overview. Check out their session at the website or visit one of their sessions in the near future, I can highly recommend it.
*** TUT 235 - Advanced Technical Training and Worldwide Support Present Best Practices for GroupWise 6.5 on Linux ***
I was supposed to be at this session delivered by Mike Bills, Ira Messenger, Tay Kratzer and Matt Preston as well, but unfortunately I missed it because of other engagements. It must have been interesting to see these four guys deliver this cool stuff.
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Well, that was the end of BrainShare again, our little group has spend the night at the Red Rock café with a nice dinner and some (!!) drinks, tomorrow we will be on our way home. I think for all of us this has once again been a wonderful experience and it was of course extra special because we’ve seen so much renewed energy around GroupWise. I think the GroupWise Product Management and the partners are doing a great job of tapping into this new energy source and helping to lift it to another level: GroupWise is a great product on any platform and it’s strength needs to be brought to the attention of a bigger audience.
We’re all working on this and I’m very glad we’ve seen the announcement at Cebit for the GroupWise User Group "GroupWise & Friends" serving Germany and Austria and the Dutch GUG-NL which was launched this week at BrainShare. I expect these groups will get the attention and the members they need to become really successful, hopefully they can become as important or even more important as other groups like the already successful GUG-UK.
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And this was the last day of BrainShare 2005 in Salt Lake city, read more about it below...