I posted some time ago about moving to the internal beta GroupWise 7 Linux client.
Since then I’ve been very impressed with the new found stability and performance of the Linux client – it’s actually pretty responsive too!
Also all new is the revamped WebAccess – drag and drop, name completion and a new look – very impressive.
More here: http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/newrelease.html
I predict that within the next two-three years this open-source marketing campaign will be used as a case study for anybody looking at marketing within high technology.
From modest beginings, through to the release of Firefox 1.0, the double page ad in the New York Times, to over 70 million downloads – this is perhaps a never to be repeated phenomenon.
Alpha 2 of Deer Park is available – announcement in the Mozilla dev forums.
Install is clean and easy on NLD – settings, preferences, saves passwords and cookies – everything brought over correctly.
Browsing is fast – this is very noticable; especially compared to Firefox 1.0.x.
I will be speaking with the Novell TTP group next week on ZENworks and systems management.
“Novell TTP?” you ask.. Well – it’s not exactly secret, but you won’t find it listed on novell.com.
Here’s the official blurb:
The Novell Technology Transfer Partners (TTP) is an international group of colleges and universities that have made a substantial commitment to campus IT implementations using Novell technology. TTP was started in the early 1980’s with 14 universities whose goal was to share their networking experiences in order to leverage the knowledge of their diverse campus computing environments. The group has now grown to be a more comprehensive group of loyal Novell higher education customers that not only share information with each other, but with the software developers and business units at Novell. Perhaps no other group has more influence on software development at Novell than the TTP members.
Basically it’s my chance to listen to a few dozen senior admins and their ideas, comments, complaints, wishes .. and even praise.
Not a lot I can add about content – it’s all under Non Disclosure – but I will be talking about cross-platform systems management, ZENworks 7, our roadmap and some of the future trends.
This struck close to home – Birmingham city centre was evacuated on Saturday evening – one of the busiest nights of the week.
The BBC reports 20,000 people were moved out of the city center area in response to a specific and credible threat.
Still breaking news; this is my old home town.
A security update for WordPress – I got time to upgrade to 1.5.1.3 this weekend.
So far, so good.
Next on the list is a firewall rebuild and refresh. Hopefully sometime this weekend.
Update – new firewall is now in place. Now using IPcop as a vastly more friendly front-end to the collection of stuff I had before.
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