Novell GroupWise 2012

The Novell company released in January, 2012 the new version of the product GroupWise 2012, once popular platform for the organization of a collective labor providing to users simple and convenient tools for work with e-mail, scheduling, task management and contact information, etc. Let's remind that the last update of a product to the version of GroupWise 8 is dated far 2008 (and in July, 2010 there was the second service pack of SP2).

The release of GroupWise 2012 remained almost unnoticed by wide audience in spite of the fact that developers tried to add to the new product of function and mechanisms meeting the requirements of modern business users. Including the client application for iPad tablets is a part of a packet. GroupWise 2012 suggests to estimate enhanced capabilities of the organization of joint work in "online" and convenient web access to usual working tools. Thanks to close integration with the Vibe platform and Skype service users will be able to keep in a continuous communication with each other.

Observers of the website ReadWriteWeb drop a hint of doubt that the updated GroupWise 2012 will be able to make the worthy competition to modern tools for a collective labor and work with e-mail, despite inclusion in the delivery of the free server based on SUSE of Linux. Nevertheless, according to statistical data the product which lost former popularity still locates a small user group. The platform is remained faithful by about 10,000 clients, besides, the product still is "on arms" in administrative authorities 47 (from 50) American states.