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GroupWise User Group for South Africa and the rest of Africa |
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  Welcome to the home of the GroupWise User Group for South Africa and the Rest of Africa. You can register on this web site if you want to become member of this user group. The purpose of this User Group is to connect GroupWise users in South Africa and the Rest of Africa. The GroupWise User Groups in the rest of the world has been highly successful in establishing these user group communities. It is time that we do this formally in Africa. This user group will also provide its members a range of benefits that will become evident when you register to become an active member of this User Group.
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NetCB Solutions (Pty) Ltd has now formally launched their training
division - the Open Training Institute on 2nd April 2008. We
specifically selected the 2nd of April before anyone thinks it is an
April Fools Day joke if we launched it on 1st of April, but let us get
serious now. |
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PlateSpin Forge’s ahead in disaster recovery |
 PlateSpin
has announced the release of a disaster recovery hardware appliance,
PlateSpin Forge, to protect physical and virtual server workloads. John
Ko, product marketing manager for PlateSpin told CRN that PlateSpin
Forge is the company’s first offering specifically targeting the
disaster recovery market. He added that the purpose-built recovery
solution includes prepackaged and preconfigured hardware, software and
virtual infrastructure, addressing issues faced by both SMBs and
enterprise.
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US Supreme Court Won't Hear Microsoft's Novell Appeal |
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Novell - strong results as the company finally sees its efforts rewarded |
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Last
week Novell unveiled its result for the first quarter of fiscal 2008.
Net revenue was $231m (including $7m positive impact from currency
exchange rates). Income from operations was $8m ($24m non-GAAP or 10%
of revenue, up from a negative 1% a year ago). Non-GAAP net income was
$29m. Comment: Novell has spent the last few years pulling itself up
and improving execution but had, until recently, very little to show
for it. This is no longer the case. The last few quarters have been
increasingly impressive with Novell starting to exceed consensus
estimates, leading to a strong first quarter of fiscal 2008, with total
revenue up 6% and product revenue up 9%. |
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Novell Acquires PlateSpin for $205M |
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 Novell
announced Feb. 25 that it will acquire Toronto-based virtualization
management software and services provider PlateSpin Ltd. for $205
million in cash. It was the second acquisition Novell has revealed in
12 days. The Waltham, Mass.-based enterprise software maker bought
open-source team collaboration software provider SiteScape -- founder
of the ICEcore open-source collaboration project -- on Feb. 13.
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Novell acquires SiteScape |
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Novell has acquired SiteScape, a provider of collaboration
solutions and the founder of the ICEcore open source collaboration
project. The merger between the two companies will create
interoperable, open source and open standards-based workspaces to help
with team productivity. Financial terms of the deal were not released
but SiteScape would become a fully owned subsidiary of Novell and all
the employees will fold into Novell's ranks. Also, the SiteScape brand
will no longer exist as part of the acquisition.
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The US Supreme Court has refused to hear Microsoft's appeal of Novell's multibillion-dollar antitrust suit against it. The news hit just as Novell's annual BrainShare user conference was
getting starting. Basically a private replay of the Justice
Department's suit against Microsoft, the case involves Novell's claims
that Microsoft targeted WordPerfect and QuattroPro to protect its
operating system monopoly. 
