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GroupWise v MS Exchange

We have been loyal to GroupWise since GroupWise 5.2. In spite of the problems with NetWare 5.0 and 6.0 (neither of which should ever have been released), GroupWise always performed well. When whole Exchange sites were down from Virus attacks and Worms, GroupWise just kept running.

With NetWare 6.5 after the first couple of Service Packs, it became the most reliable and easiest Server platform to install and support, that Novell had produced and GroupWise 7, in spite of a few warts here and there, just keeps running.

Then came the abandonment of NetWare in favour of a SuSE Linux Open Enterprise Server. Version 8 was a disaster, version 10.x isn't much better and version 11.x has reached rock botton and started to dig! As if this wasn't a big enough death wish, Novell proceeded to attempt to force users to GroupWise 8, a product which is so bad, that existing GW8 users can't get rid of it fast enough.

This opens the door to Microsoft Exchange which is VERY expensive so where do the old hard-core GroupWise addicts go now?

As I see it you have 3 choices :-

  1. Stay with GroupWise 7
  2. Make Microsoft even richer and migrate to Exchange
  3. Migrate to Zimbra

Now that Zimbra has excaped the clutches of Yahoo and has been taken over by VMware, we can expect yet another well supported and well presented offering from VMware in the near future

 

 

 

Novell dump GroupWise 7

GroupWise 7 was dumped by Novell on 2nd April 2010, to be replaced with the very buggy GroupWise 8 which most compamies the we know of are migrating away from. Novell seem to have this habit of producing a product, eventually getting it working to an acceptable level and then dumping it in favour of something which is badly written, badly supported and extremely buggy.

Of course now that Novell have also dumped the traditional platform which GroupWise ran on (NetWare) in favout of Novell (SuSE) Linux, with all it's warts, patches which trash the server, and poor support, it isn't really surprising. As you are aware, you can no longer download the latest GroupWise 7 patch (SP4) unless you take out an expensive support contract.

We intend to support the multitude of users with GroupWise 7 and to assist where necessary to move them to a new platform, which could be Zimbra (zee Zimbra) or Microsoft Exchange.

 

 

GroupWise

GroupWise 7 was dumped by Novell on 2nd April 2010, to be replaced with the very buggy GroupWise 8 which most compamies the we know of are migrating away from. Novell seem to have this habit of producing a product, eventually getting it working to an acceptable level and then dumping it in favour of something which is badly written, badly supported and extremely buggy.

Of course now that Novell have also dumped the traditional platform which GroupWise ran on (NetWare) in favout of Novell (SuSE) Linux, with all it's warts, patches which trash the server, and poor support, it isn't really surprising. As you are aware, you can no longer download the latest GroupWise 7 patch (SP4) unless you take out an expensive support contract.

We intend to support the multitude of users with GroupWise 7 and to assist where necessary to move them to a new platform, which could be Zimbra (zee Zimbra) or Microsoft Exchange.

 

 

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