Opening each Inbox, so you can monitor them, is a simple matter of opening a new tab (see, Browser tab quick tips for more) and logging in-- as long as we're talking about different services.

If you have more than one "Identity" at a Webmail provider, (two different Gmail accounts, say) you typically are automatically 'logged out' of one when you log in to the other from the same computer. This is annoying. Here's how to fix that behavior.

Tip of the day: Change IE's settings to allow separate log ins.
As strange it may seem, you need to close Internet Explorer, and then make a change in Folder Options.. this will affect IE as Microsoft consider it to be a part of the operating system.

1) Start >Control Panel >Folder Options (XP user: Start >Settings >)

2) Click on the "View" tab.
3) Scroll down until you see "Launch folder windows in a separate process" and place a check in the checkbox.
4) Click "Apply", and then "OK".

That's it. You're done. Now you can launch IE and you will be able to log in to each of your Identities/Inboxes, and one will no longer 'log out' the other.

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The September 8 edition of Business Week ran a small story titled Your E-mail Address Is Blabbing On You.  Salient point:  a study by the University of Leipzig suggests your e-mail address can give a distinct and accurate impression of you.  Some traits identified: narcissism or conscientiousness.

In looking at 1,400 URLs and e-mail addresses of court reporting firms, I found a number that were puzzling.  I won't judge, and I won't use real ones, but let me paraphrase three of my favorites.  Think about what they might mean to a customer or prospect:

BillingsWilliamsBusterKeatonDogBreath.com -- well, we certainly covered every partner.  But what about their children?  And pets?

Jimmy29247@aol.com  -- welcome to the next century.  Hope you're enjoying your AOL account, and let us know when you can afford a URL that mentions your firm name.

DustyPatterson@pattersonrptg.com-- I know, rptg means reporting.  But I mispellll it 2 out of 5 timesss.

GoDaddy.com charges $9.99 per year per URL.  I bet in fifteen minutes you/me/we can come up with a better one than you have now.

FREE COFFEE?

About 5 months ago, John Wall at Ronin Marketeer made me aware of a "Java Beta Test" that Joffrey's was doing.  Joffrey's is an online tea & coffee company that had a great idea that I wrote of earlier.  They offered free samples of their coffee to bloggers and had them write about the product.  Risky venture, but not if your product is at the caliber of Joffrey's.  Their Jamaica Me Crazy was fantastic!  Great strategy and great innovative technique to allow multiple bloggers to get in on the action.  At last count they have over 1,500 blogs they've involved.

GREAT FOLLOW-THROUGH

I admit that I had every intention of buying a bag of Jamaica Me Crazy...but you can fill in the rest of the story. Life just comes too fast some days.  So, jump start to yesterday.  Five months after this beta test and I get an email from Joffrey's alerting me to their new site and to check it out.  They never invaded my email box after the initial experiment.  They backed off unlike many others who call you 2,000 times after a whitepaper download.  But they followed through on the contacts they made during their Java Beta Test and discreetly reminded everyone they were still around, had a new site design and indirectly brought business back around to their site.  Plus they offered a 25% discount to me and my readers.  Details below...

To make it even more satisfying, I wrote a letter back to the email issuer, Adam, Director of Digital Strategy with Pierson Grant, who is the strategist team for Joffrey's.  I wrote my compliments...and got a reply within 15 minutes or so.

We need more companies like Joffrey's and Pierson Grant - for people who know how to use the great responsibility of social media and who do it well.

Once again, my coffee mug is raised in their honor!  Now, here is the email I received with that special offer:

Coffee Trends in the Blogosphere:

Results from Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company’s survey based on 1,000 bloggers:

• Average age of Java Beta Tester:  approximately 31.5 years old

Coffee preferences:

• 93% prefer regular, 7% prefer decaf
• 59% prefer traditional coffee, 41% prefer flavored coffee
• Cups of coffee per day:
  • 1-2 = 45%
  • 2-4 = 35%
  • 4+ = 20%
• Sweetener and cream preferences:
  • Cream + sweetener = 50%
  • Black = 25%
  • Cream only = 19%
  • Sweetener only = 6%

Also, to show our true appreciation for your time and consideration during this test, we have another gift for you and your readers:  25% off your first order of any of our delicious coffees and teas.  Just go to Joffreys.com, place your order and add the promotional code: javabeta when prompted during the order process and your items will be discounted.

Thanks again for participating, and we’ll be sure to keep you in the loop for additional testing of other flavors.  While the current beta is still running for everyone who hasn’t tried Jamaican Me Crazy, we’re brewing up something even more exciting for the next test – stay tuned!

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I've been waking up at 5 a.m. Taiwan is exactly 12 hours off of New York time, and despite my New York sleeping schedule being rather uh, erratic, it hasn't matched up nicely as one might think. I fell asleep at 6 p.m. and woke up at 4 a.m. today.

I ran four miles this morning, but it's only 11 a.m. and I've eaten three meals. One was deep-fried, one was baked and rolled in butter, and this one is uhm, foreign looking oatmeal. I'll spell it out for you: Input does not = output.

My mother just didn't understand why I needed me some internet time so badly, but, bless her heart, she tried her very best to find out why the hell no one in our building has open wireless, or why we can't buy something to hook ourselves up to wifi for less than a minimum of three months, or why we have pay and enter this new fangled username and password to log into WiFLY! at any given cafe. But then I signed on, finally (angels sang — hell, they didn't just sing, they HARMONIZED) and I was like "See mama?" I showed my mom. 63 e-mails and it's been like <48 hours. The internet is IMPORTANT TO ME.

I should probably turn on my auto responder thing. I thought I wasn't important enough to need one / for anyone to care, but I found myself writing about 13 apologetic "I'm so sorry for not getting back to you sooner I'm in Asia with limited internet connectivity" e-mails just now.

After I realized the nearest place with internet that I have to pay for is still 15 minutes away from my apartment, I died a little inside. Suddenly the remaining seven days I'm here until my brother and family friends arrive seems like a desolate, never-ending desert. OK, fine, a desert with a buffet of food.

Now, internet time is up. Time for me to get back to the real world. Which suspiciously resembles bakery heaven.

I'm sure you've done it. Clicked the SEND button too fast, I mean? Of course you have.  I certainly have.

Last year I received an e-mail from Legal. In it, some bonehead attorney for the other side in an obnoxious case that was pending articulated a position that was so aggravating that I had to make a comment about it to my pal, the General Counsel of our company. "Who is this f***ing guy?!" I wrote, in perhaps not my most convivial or corporate tone. "And will somebody please tell him to SHUT UP?!" I was in a bad mood. I admit it.

About six seconds later,  I got an e-mail back from our General Counsel, whom I will call Bud. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" it read. "BOB GROSS IS COPIED ON YOUR E-MAIL!!" Bob Gross, which is not his real name, was the flatulent barrister who had generated my wrath. Obviously, I had hit REPLY TO ALL instead of the simple, safe REPLY. Several moments later, I got another e-mail... from Bob Gross himself. "Who is this?" it inquired politely of me. "Perhaps we should have lunch sometime."

I was required to reply to the gross Mr. Gross in the most subservient, sniveling and apologetic of terms, admitting that I had lost my temper and sent an impolitic correspondence, etc., etc., and blah blah blah. Gross, for his part, was pleased. He had aggravated somebody. His job as an attorney was done for the day. Or at least for the hour.

I tell this story to make a point: into the valley of digital humiliation and possible termination go we all.

Which brings us to a particularly stunning atrocity of the genre, reported by Advertising Age online earlier this week. I'll give you the short version:

Carat is a media agency that, like many in the sector, is "rationalizing its costs" during the current economic downturn. This odious part of corporate life is very often run by the Human Resources department of a company, a discipline given to the over-generation of formal internal communication about everything. HR is very good at planning these kinds of things, but should never be given the job of handling the communications for them, really. Honest. You can take that to the bank.

Anyhow, in the process of working up the communication strategy for their upcoming layoffs, sorry, I mean Restructuring, the HR department produced a comprehensive suite of documents elucidating how it was supposed to go, the messages to employees, internal talking points, and so forth. When that was assembled, the head of HR for Carat pushed the wrong button and sent the entire package of material wide via electronic mail to all employees, including a lot who were scheduled to be decruited in the coming debacle. AdAge reports:

Struggling media agency Carat is planning a major restructuring of its U.S. operations, including an undetermined number of layoffs - news it accidentally released today via a memo the agency's top New York-based HR executive e-mailed to the entire agency that appeared to be intended only for senior managers.

So... a word to the wise and the foolish alike: Think before you click. You'll be glad you did.

so far i havent mayd enny munny off theez bankers yet but dada hasnt mayd enny munny off his buks eether so we ar even ha ha ok bye

There’s a great new free mobile/e-mail/SMS blogging
centralised service set now called Posterous. 
It can auto-update your other online presences like Twitter, Wordpress, Flickr,
etc also.  Just e-mail a posting to post@posterous.com
and it does all the work!

Sounds VERY promising.

RoryD

Posted by email from Rory's posterous

Mas para contrariar esta tendência, hoje levantei-me e não liguei o pc. Se bem que antes tivesse ligado, porque apanhei uma molha tremenda na rua e cheguei a casa sem guarda-chuva!! São Pedro resolveu lavar as persianas e não se importou em me estragar o fim-de-semana que por aí vem :(

E lá estou eu a divagar... e este post era mesmo para quê?? Para comunicar aos leitores deste blog que resolvi criar MSN para o infinitosmomentos!!! Afinal, por vezes precisamos de trocar umas ideias e não há melhor forma de o fazer senão encurtando distâncias.

Por isso, não se inibam de utilizar o e-mail do infinitosmomentos e mandar notícias ou, inclusivamente, adicionando-o ao MSN. Para quem ainda não reparou, desde Dezembro de 2007, no canto superior direito do Blog...

infinitosmomentos@gmail.com

Dunque, il Moige, nota associazione dei genitori di stampo bigotto/cattolico/omofobico/allarmista insieme alla polizia postale (tra un oscuramento di un blog e un sito, solo perché fa incendiare la coda di paglia di certi personaggi), hanno lanciato un nuovo allarme sociale che farà incetta di "angeli assessuati" detti anche bambini (fino a 17 anni, 12 mesi 364 giorni).

Ovvero, predatori senza scrupoli (possibilmente Orchi usciti dal gioco Word of Warcraft) invitano poveri ed ignari "angeli assesuati" a fare foto osè in cambio di preziosi pezzi di plastica con un codice che ti dona un quantitativo in denaro per il propio Telefonino Cellulare!

Non ha caso prepareranno uno spot con lo slogan: "Dite ai vostri figli di non accettare SMS dagli sconosciuti", perchè come ben sapete gli Orchi, con l'aiuto dell'orda detta anche Internazionale della pedofilia S.P.A. , riesce ad intercettare i numeri dei cellulari degli "angeli assessuati" nonostante che i numeri di quest'ultimi siano intestati a maggiorenni, per inviare degli inviti con messaggi subbliminali che inducono gli "angeli assessuati" ha fare delle pedopornografissime foto osè! Dopo questo atto si materializzerà la scheda per ricaricare il credito telefonico! Una cosa incredibile!!!

...

Parliamo seriamente che è meglio!
Questa azione ha contorni deliranti, perchè si pensa subito che ci sia qualcuno che risce a mandare SMS ha un minore a caso (di quale età poi ?) per adescarlo, per avere "foto osè" in cambio di una ricarica ecc ecc... Insomma, forse non sanno che in molti casi succede l'opposto, ovvero sono certi ragazzini che rompono i maroni ad un maggiorenne di farli una ricarica in cambio di qualche foto senza veli, ma no! Ovviamente loro che sono degli "ingenui angeli assessuati" non sono ingrado di concepire una cosa simile..si, si...avete ragione!

Il Capo della polizia postale (l'ente che oscura siti e blog quando qualcuno si mette a frignare) ha detto:

"prima il telefonino serviva solo a comunicare, ora i nuovi cellulari sono delle vere e proprie stazioni Internet viaggianti, in grado di inviare video e fotografie".

C'erto! I cellulari sono delle stazioni internet viaggianti, molto economici con le tariffe dati vendute a peso d'oro. Ma se lo dice il capo della polizia postale, c'è da credici, insomma lui combatte contro gli orchi, quindi non può mentire, acciderbolina!

Ma continua:

"Negli ultimi anni la PolPost ha arrestato e denunciato molti pedofili che contattavano telefonicamente, attraverso SMS, ragazzi e ragazze minorenni, ai quali chiedevano immagini pornografiche in cambio di ricariche telefoniche, tentando, in alcuni casi, di incontrare i giovani fuori dalla loro abitazioni".

Come ho detto sopra, spesso accade il contrario, ovvero che sono Ragazzine, grazie ad una educazione assente dei genitori, che propongono foto osè in cambio di una ricarica telefonica, quindi le ragazzine che fanno cosi, sono pedofile di loro stesse, perchè diffondono materiale pedopornografico, stando alla legge :)
Ma poi se io ricevo eventualmente queste pressioni, ma respingo la ragazzina, ma lei mi denucia per violenza sessuale accusandomi di essere un pedofilo, sarei fregato ?

Mentre invece Barbara Saltamartini (nel senso che in famiglia da generazioni, saltano usando come ostacolo delle bottiglie del martini ?), capo gruppo del Partito dei Luridi, vuole mettere un nuovo reato: L'ADESCAMENTO TELEMATICO!! Che a grandi linea, se tu riesci ad avere fiducia di un "minore" vuol dire che lo stai manipolando per averne il massimo controllo, c'erto perchè è noto che uno solo perchè è minore vuol dire che sia pure minorato mentale, ecc...

Ovviamente c'è pure un "bel" comunicato stampa del Moige, che tra l'altro da una lettura veloce ho già notato due castronerie:

1. L'ipod e un lettore mp3 sono la stessa cosa.
2. 16 anni non è = Bambino.

Che dire, altra legge nebulosa in materia in arrivo ? Temo propio di si...

Da notare che la Morandi, aveva copia incollato tale notizia ieri sera, come arma per la sua demente campagna contro Azzurra.org :)

Fonti:
Comunicato demente del Moige
La campanga del moige dei pedofili che ti violentano via SMS e che fanno un cumshot via MMS
Punto Informatico sulla notizia
Punto informatico sulla proposta di adescamento telematico

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90% of all email is spam

- Munnu

Compliments let me know I'm doing my job.

A career in journalism, especially in the beginning stages, isn't based on hard numbers - it's not black and white. It's creative, interpretive and subjective. It receives judgment and criticism.

That's what runs through my head every time I e-mail a completed assignment to my editor at The Fort Pierce Tribune, and I always slightly panic. Clearly I need compliments.

Usually an e-mail back from her saying she likes my story or it's good suffices. But nothing beats praise from her through other reporters.

I received a message the other day from a former Scripps reporter telling me that I made a good impression as a reporter there, and he thinks they'd hire me as soon as the economic situation improves. Today a long-time Tribune photojournalist told me that he heard about me from my editor - in a good way.

But it's also great to get compliments from those I actually interview. The main source for an assignment I covered today e-mailed me to tell me again how much she appreciated me taking time late the night before to interview her. I got the main information for the story before the program today so that I wouldn't take away from her time teaching the kids.

All that matters is that I'm doing something right.

"With the nation watching, the Republicans mocked, dismissed, and actually laughed out loud at Americans who engage in community service and organizing," the latest e-mail said.

The campaign asked for donations of $5 or more to prove "the McCain attack squad doesn't understand is that people like you - who devote part of their busy lives to organizing and building their communities - have the power to change this country."

Marc Ambinder reports via Twitter that the campaign says they've raised $10 million since last night alone.

--Samuel Rubenfeld

If anyone ever wants to e-mail or IM me on AIM, my address is gmmbrown1@aol.com. I always thought that you could see it on here but then saw that you couldn't. Woops. 

Hope to hear from you. :]

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin on September 7th 1998. The two students from Stanford University started Google with just 100,000 dollars. And over the past 10 years they have built it in to a multi billion dollar corporation. August 19th Google went on the stock exchange, making it worth 23 billion dollars. Today it is worth an outstanding 179,07 billion US dollars.

So how does Google make money? It sell advertisements associated with search keywords. Say for example you type in the word car, it will find links for you. If you look to right after you have done a search you will see the payed links, or ads. But Google doesn´t just make money with these links, Google owns many other internet sites and applications. Google make money from normal ads here as well. 

So which web sites and services does Google own/provide?

Here is a list on most of them:

• www.Google.com          Google´s search engine. 

• Google News          Automated news aggregator

• Google Product Search          Price comparison service

• Google Groups          Discussion website

• Google Spreadsheets          Web-based word processor

• Google Maps          Offers street maps, a route planner

• Gmail          E-mail service 

• Google Video          It´s own version of Youtube

• Google Sites wiki          Helps small-businesses have their own website

• Google Desktop          A desktop search for your own computer

• Google.org          Charitable arm of the Google´s search engine

• Picasa          Software app. for organizing and editing digital photos

• Orkut          Social network service

• Google Earth          Virtual globe, uses satellite imagery, aerial photography                                       and GIS 3D 

• Google Moon          Shows satellite images of the Moon

• Google Mars          Shows pictures of Mars

• Google Labs          Shows Google´s up and coming projects

• Google Checkout          Online payment processing service

• Google Book Search          Search engine for books that Google are scanning

• Knol          Described as a complement to Wikipedia

• SketchUP          3D modeling program

• Youtube          Google bought YouTube for 1,65 billion in 2006.

• Google China          Google´s search engine for Chinese users

• Google Chrome          Open source web browser

So how does the search engine work? Well, when you type in your keyword its find web pages that have that word in them. After it has found them it has to rank them. The pages are ordered by what the search engine thinks is most relevant. But how does it think?. The entire Google search engine is basically just a bunch of algorithms. Mathematics put in a sequence to make instructions. For example, when ranking the algorithms look at how many ingoing links every page has. The more incoming links a page has there more relevant i becomes. But i doesn´t stop there. The incoming links to the incoming are also counted. This goes on and on. Thats the simple version.

Did you mean: .......   Is something that often pops up when using Google. It is a kind of spelling corrector. On online dictionary. Lets says you spell your keyword wrong, Google comes up with it believes you are looking for. This is a very helpful service that Google provides. I used it many times myself while writing this post. But have you ever wounded how the search engine knows what you meant?

Google's recent free Web-browser 'CHROME', according to its officials happens to be more superior than Microsofts Internet Explorer and Firefox browser. Google feels that with the increase in number of internet users, there is a great scope for scalability of its product. This web-browser can also be adopted in mobile phones to provide internet access to mobile users. This feature has brought about increase in the number who comes in contact with Web advertising, due to Mobile user community. This is a huge boost to Google's lead in Web Advertising. Online search and Web Advertising happens to be the bone of contention for Microsoft and Google. Google has been competing with Microsoft in the areas of presentation software, e-mail software by providing a free or low cost effective packages. Until now Google has been backing Firefox browser which is also open source but due to the Introduction of CHROME, the situation has changed which implies an additional competitior for Internet Explorer.

In reply to Google's CHROME, the official in Microsoft replied by saying that User friendly nature provided by Internet Explorer 8 along with the Security features offers a high resistance to any Web-browser.

Source: The Hindu, Newscape, September 3, 2008.

So der Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz, Peter Schaar in einem langen Artikel bei welt.de

Der laut einer Umfrage beliebteste Arbeitgeber Amerikas muss sich laufend für kleine "Missverständnisse" mit dem Datenschutz rechtfertigen. Er speichert jetzt die Suchanfragen jedes einzelnen Menschen auf der Welt nicht mehr für immer, sondern nur noch 18 Monate lang.

Für jeden Nutzer lassen sich umfangreiche Profile erstellen. Google Mail speichert die Nachrichten, Google Maps auf dem iPhone lässt ständiges Anpeilen zu, Dienstpläne und Arbeitsaufträge kann der Abteilungsleiter bei Google Docs And Spreadsheets und der Arzt Krankenakten bei Google Health verwalten.

Die US Regierung darf durch die Gesetze nach der großen Angstwelle nach dem 11. September alle Nutzerdaten von Firmen einsehen. Google ist demnach verpflichtet ohne der Öffentlichkeit Bescheid zu sagen, sämtliche Informationen über seine Nutzer herauszugeben. Das gilt auch für user aus Deutschland.

Nachdem jetzt mit Google Chrome auch ein Browser des Multikonzerns zur freien Verfügung steht, ist es nicht einmal mehr nötig, die Google Toolbar zu installieren, um beim Surfen beobachtet zu werden. Jetzt sind tatsächlich alle Fakten wie

• besuchte Seiten
• Verweildauer auf einzelnen Seiten
• Klicks auf Links, Bestellbuttons und Google AdSense
• Downloads, YouTube Videos und beim Hochladen von Dateien auch
• die Festplatte

von Google ohne jeglichen Aufwand erfassbar. Natürlich macht Google das nicht oder eben nur im Rahmen der für das Internet geltende Datenschutzrechte.

Also keine Sorge, man kann man sich nach wie vor sorglos zurücklehnen, wie hier ein Google Mitarbeiter in der Firmeneigenen Schaumstoff Badewanne.

Die Paps von Google, Larry Page und Sergey Brin, lieben die Öffentlichkeit. Auf vielen Diskussionstreffen zu Computer- und Internettagungen fahren sie gemeinsam um der Welt zu zeigen: "Sehr, her, wir sind die zwei Jungs, die in der Garage eine Suchmaschine programmiert haben. Wir sind wie ihr!" Und das funktioniert auch ganz gut.

Zwar gibt es gerade nach offiziellen Aussagen wie "wir wollen die Welt verbessern" oder "wir möchten alle Daten dieser Welt für alle zugänglich machen" oftmals Proteste von Professoren, Analysten und sonstigem Geschmeiß, aber was wissen die schon über ein Unternehmen, das seit 10 Jahren ein buntes Logo trägt, das irgendwie kindlich wirkt.

Toll für Webmaster ist auch das kostenlose Analyse Tool, das Google von einem bankrotten Online Marketing Unternehmen gekauft und bearbeitet hat. Wer will, kann seine Seite damit professionell kontrollieren lassen. Besucherströme, Seitenaufrufe, Suchbegriffe, Verweildauer und vieles mehr kann der Betreiber der Seite damit auslesen. Google auch. Bietet Google aus purer Menschenfreundlichkeit Dienste und Programme an, für die man normalerweise 100 Euro++ pro Monat zahlen müsste?

Und warum sind die Rechenzentren von Google stets versteckt, geheim gehalten und tragen keine Firmenlogos? Wahrscheinlich, damit sie nicht von Hackern gefunden werden, die direkt mit dem Laptop vor Ort fahren, um zu kucken, wie das Ranking funktioniert oder was Lieschen Müller an den Hannes gemailt hat. Das geht auch keinen was an.

Naja und äh wer ist weltweit der größte Internetwerbe-Agent?

Egal, das kann man eh alles bei welt.de nachlesen: Zum Artikel über Google bei welt.de

RD: Dull.

JS: Mean.

RD: Honest.

JS: Sad.

RD: My feelings exactly. I love to doodle...as do all cartoonists..but "real" doodles come form the subconscious..often leading to creations of ideas you would never have had otherwise. I'm always amazed at what doodles can often lead to. Your doodles lack that spontaneity. I'm not being mean, I'm just trying to be honest. If you don't want a response...don't ask for it.

JS: The funny thing is I totally agree with you about what constitutes "real" doodling. What you don't get is I'm just having fun with it by doing an "analytical" number on it. It's satire. Lighten up.

The fact that I had to explain what I was up to indicates that my mild attempt at satire failed, or perhaps it was too clever by half and simply went over RD's head. But the thing I still can't understand is why he would go to the trouble to send a mean-spirited response to it in the first place. I don't understand pettiness in any form. (There was a bit more to today's exchange, but in the later stuff RD went completely off the doodle track and began to critique my gag cartoons in political terms as "right wing." That's where he really lost me.)

While Novell doesn’t spend much marketing effort to compete with IBM and Microsoft in the enterprise messaging market, Novell does continue to develop and maintain GroupWise for their established customer base. Most market estimates place Novell’s single digit enterprise messaging market share at a distant third to IBM and Microsoft. But GroupWise is a good example of how e-mail systems once entrenched, tend to stay. 

It has taken Novell a long time to deliver on GroupWise 8.  GroupWise 7 released in August 2005. However, GroupWise customers will find some nice “delighters” in this next release, as Novell spent a significant portion of its development effort on the end user experience. 

Perhaps one the most significant differentiators in this release is that Novell can now tout a complete enterprise messaging solution from the server to the desktop for Linux. Novell has been using its own Linux desktop internally for several years. As a result, there was significant pressure on the GroupWise team to bring the GroupWise Linux client up to snuff. The Linux client in GroupWise 8 is arguably one of the richest Linux e-mail clients in the market. Unfortunately for Linux aficionados, it is not open source.  For GroupWise customers, this also means a very rich Mac client, as the two clients share the same code base. 

In addition to the Linux development, GroupWise contact management, task management and calendaring have been enhanced significantly – bringing them on par (or even slightly better, depending upon your opinion) with Exchange and Notes. 

Overall, GroupWise customers should be happy with this next version and it should help Novell to retain customers. Now Novell needs to find a large, credible partner to help them provide a robust hosted GroupWise offering or potentially watch their customer base dwindle away as SaaS e-mail solutions become more viable for enterprises.