Novell Conferencing—a cost-effective, easy-to-use web conferencing solution—is now available. Novell Conferencing helps organizations reduce travel costs by instantly sharing documents, web pages, whiteboards, audio and video—even recording meetings—without any participant software to install. Novell Conferencing is also the only solution that integrates with Novell GroupWise. While users are in their GroupWise mailbox, they can simply click on a Novell Messenger (formerly GroupWise Messenger) icon to schedule or instantly launch a web conference.

The open technology preview Novell announced at BrainShare U.S. has been extremely successful. As of April 19, Novell had 1,522 downloads and very productive discussion taking place in the Novell forums. As a reminder, the technology preview--as well as available supporting resources--can be found at http://www.novell.com/mobilitypreview.

Do you have machines in your Novell Customer Care Center that come up as unknown or just do not look right? Have a look at this tip from Norm O'Neal, as he describes a quick way to fix this situation. By the way, Norm is the president of Open Horizons - US Midwest, a NUI chapter which recently decided to "convert" to Open Horizons - congratulations to Norm and his crew - keep up the good work!

Novell BrainShare is back and not just once, but twice. Novell surprised many of us when announcing that in 2010 their great BrainShare event will not only run in Salt Lake City (US) in March, but also in Europe. And more precisely, in wonderful Amsterdam (NL), a city full of surprising views, museums, music and much more. Of course the Open Horizons community will be very involved with this event and together with Novell we are planning quite a few surprising activities before and during this event.

Yes, that is right! Novell has bought a large number of Open Horizons books and these will be offered as FREE gift to participants at BrainShare - for as long as stock will least. Early Bird Discount of 200 Euro is available until April 16, so hurry and register NOW for BrainShare Amsterdam to receive one of these cool books for FREE!

 

Be among the first to get your hands on this highly anticipated product! Novell is pleased to announce an open technology preview of the Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack, scheduled for availability mid-year. This product will synchronize GroupWise e-mail, calendar data and contacts with all ActiveSync-enabled devices—including the Apple iPhone. It will also serve as a replacement for GroupWise Mobile Server. To download the technology preview today, visit http://www.novell.com/mobilitypreview.

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Dear Customer:

I want to share with you an important announcement that Novell made today.

As you may know, on March 2nd, Elliott Associates, L.P. announced an unsolicited, conditional proposal to acquire Novell. Today we issued a press release announcing that our Board of Directors has concluded, after careful consideration, including a review of the proposal with its independent financial and legal advisors, that Elliott's proposal is inadequate and that it undervalues the Company's franchise and growth prospects.

Novell released the latest and final support pack today for Novell GroupWise 7. It is Novell GroupWise 7.0.4 and it is available for immediate download. GroupWise 7.0.4 is a compilation of all Hot Patches and Field Test Files since Novell released GroupWise 7.0.3. GroupWise 7.0.3 was released in early 2008 and since then customers have been able to download Hot Patches, updates and changes through regular support channels and their Novell Technical Services representative.