Novell is proud to bring to South Africa the Hidden Gems Tour.  This event to be hosted in both Cape Town and Johannesburg, to both Academic and Non-academic partners, promises to reveal those Hidden Gems that ships out the box with Novell solutions that so few organisations know about and use. To book your attendance to these FREE events please click here.

We are running a current pole on our Facebook page regarding the location of the 2010 African Summit.  It would be appreciated if you could take a few minutes to please respond to the poll.  The poll can be found at this link.

Open Horizons Africa is now on Facebook.  To become a fan, simply search for "Open Horizons Africa" and click on the "Become a Fan" link on click here.

Good news: as the beta program ended last week, Support Pack 1 for GroupWise 8 is now available for download. Many people have been waiting for the release of this support pack, to fully deploy GroupWise 8 in their organization.

Now that Novell has released the Support Pack 1 for GroupWise 8, the development team of GroupWise@Home is now entering the final phase of tuning and testing. In the next few weeks the more than 100 beta testers will test the latest version of the GroupWise@Home modules as well as finalize the translation of the user interface elements. We hope to be able to set a final date for the launch of GroupWise@Home soon, as so many people have been waiting for this release.

Novell today announced its team collaboration solution, Novell® Teaming, was recognized as a leader in the August 2009 Forrester Research, Inc. report, The Forrester Wave: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009. In evaluating Novell Teaming, the report states, "Teaming brings very strong capabilities for workspaces and collaborative application development, particularly in the area of workflow." Novell Teaming rounds out the company's strong suite of collaboration solutions and helps customers increase enterprise productivity.

As an IT professional, you're always on the move. Deploying software, configuring desktops, servicing end users, evaluating the latest products, justifying budget requests, meeting business needs—you've always been in a state of perpetual motion. But never so much as in today's challenging economic climate.

So let Novell help you set the most efficient pace with the IT in Action tour, coming soon to a city near you.  See the Events menu item at the top of this page or click here.

GroupWise@Home offers many benefits compared to the competition. Unlike other solutions GroupWise@Home uses the same strong GroupWise client that you use in the office, so you will get all the rich features of the GroupWise client for use at home. And the good news is: it is free!