Novell ships GroupWise 7
Novell has issued version 7 of its GroupWise collaborative software package. The new release adds support for instant messaging and includes a bundled licence for Suse Linux Enterprise Server.
The latest GroupWise also features deeper Microsoft Outlook integration and PDA synchronisation as well as familiar capabilities such as the capacity to retract sent mail.
Acquired with the purchase of WordPerfect in 1994, GroupWise predates Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange, and has a loyal user base. Despite that, Novell’s flirtations with various other groupware products have led some observers to doubt GroupWise’s future. Novell recently announced plans to stop actively selling Open-Xchange Server but still backs another open-source collaborative software project called Hula.