Novell releases Group Wise collaboration software

A new version of Group Wise collaboration software, an alternative to Microsoft’s Exchange/Outlook suite, has been released by Novell.

Group Wise 8 was available in beta form for the last several months. It comes in Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and web versions. Novell is claiming that the total cost of ownership of its software is lower than that of Microsoft.

Suites of Group Wise 8’s instant-messaging software, calendar and email are on par with Microsoft’s Exchange/Outlook and IBM’s Lotus/Domino.

Microsoft has also launched Exchange as part of its online hosted service. This has set the stage for another competition among collaboration products.

Novell stated that new software provides features like blogs and RSS feed. It has capability to utilise wikis and has its dashboard in mashup-style. Novell also claimed that the software supports Blackberry, iPhone and Palm mobile platforms. Its calendaring system makes specific data publicly available.

The Group Wise collaboration has numerous contact-management features such as associating geographical maps to contacts. This would assist third party contractors to work closely with internal staff of the company.

An innovative feature of Group Wise software is that it supports threaded email which allows reading of conversations as discussions. Novell has not yet declared software’s price for the UK market.

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