Each year, GWAVA works at meeting its customers needs, especially the GroupWise community.

This year I invite you to participate in a short GWAVA customer satisfaction survey to help us become better as a company and to become better at meeting the Novell GroupWise community needs.

Here is the link to the survey:

GWAVA Customer Survey

Thank you for your support in 2008 and we look forward to a successful 2009.

The following comments are from a stubbing discussion on the NGWList, a Novell GroupWise user email listserv. Charles goes into details about the issues of stubbing.

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Simon,

It's true that the current conventional wisdom around stubbing in the
Exchange world is shifting towards only stubbing attachments (even
Microsoft is recommending it). This is not only critical from a
performance point of view, it also makes a lot sense since it's really
the attachment that consumes the space.

BTW... The initial stubbing API Novell is delivering in GroupWise 8

This is our 5th year in the US for GWAVACon and our 10th GWAVACon worldwide. The conference is still focused on Novell GroupWise but has also become a gathering place for other Novell Collaboration Solutions, including ZENworks, Novell Teaming, and now OES.

Each year the event has grown in numbers and influence. Last year, Ron Hovsepian, Novell CEO was the keynote speaker to a packed room. This year in Berlin, Volker Schmid, President of Novell EMEA was the keynote speaker.

First, what is stubbing?

The removal of a GroupWise item from the GroupWise message store that is then placed into a third party database, leaving a "stub" that appears to be the message in the GroupWise Windows Client.

The concept was developed for Microsoft because their databases were growing too large in Exchange and they need to get them smaller. Stubbing was created to move content out of the Exchange message store into something else.

The problem is now that stubbing has been out there for awhile, problems are appearing. And Microsoft is now recommending AGAINST Stubbing.

Vertigo from GWAVA was developed by Roel Van Bueren and Ronald De Zwart.

The product isn't technically a replacement for Console One, but right now, in its current version it is doing a lot of the things that GroupWise administrators wish Console One would do for them.

The good news is that Vertigo added a Console One Snapin a few months back and can work seamlessly with Console One.

Radicati, a Messaging and Collaboration analyst firm, is doing a survey on the Collaboration Space.

Be sure to participate to show your support for GroupWise.

http://www.radicati.com/survey.asp

I'm conducting, through my corporation BlissPoint, a GroupWise Market Research Survey. Click here to participate and be entered to win 3G iPhone from Apple.

GroupWise Market Research Survey

I recently chatted with a GWAVA customer outside the United States about their hardware failing on a GroupWise Post Office that was nearly 200GB in size and how Reload saved the day. I'm being slightly vague on the details because we are working on getting the story published and I don't want to steal my own thunder...BUT...the story is too good to not say something.

Reload from GWAVA has been referred to as the Holy Grail of GroupWise. The reason it is called the Holy Grail is due to the unique architecture of GroupWise. Due to its method of storing and retrieving email messages, it makes it hard for GroupWise to recover a single message or an entire post office in an easy, quick way. Also, due to the vast number of files involved, traditional backup software struggles to handle the constant usage of GroupWise to secure a clean back up of the post office.