Novell shows new GroupWise

Novell announced last week that the next version of its collaboration and messaging package, GroupWise 6.5, was in a public beta and should ship early next year.

New features include a Web-based user interface that lets customers filter out junk e-mail, scan for viruses and use contact management tools.

The company also has added an Internet messaging component, which lets users within an organization exchange short Secure Sockets Layer-encrypted messages. According to Howard Tayler, GroupWise product manager, the company will expand on this capability by adding a gateway feature by mid-2003 that lets users send messages to users on other e-mail systems.

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Novell announced last week that the next version of its collaboration and messaging package, GroupWise 6.5, was in a public beta and should ship early next year.

New features include a Web-based user interface that lets customers filter out junk e-mail, scan for viruses and use contact management tools.

The company also has added an Internet messaging component, which lets users within an organization exchange short Secure Sockets Layer-encrypted messages. According to Howard Tayler, GroupWise product manager, the company will expand on this capability by adding a gateway feature by mid-2003 that lets users send messages to users on other e-mail systems.

New to GroupWise 6.5 is use of APIs to access standards-based protocols such as Internet Message Access Protocol and Simple Object Access Protocol-based XML, which can trigger workflow events or content filters.

According to IDC, Novell's market share for e-mail/collaborative environments has nearly doubled in the past year from 3.4% to 6.2%. IBM/Lotus and Microsoft dominate the market.

Users wanting to test GroupWise 6.5 can download it from beta.novell.com/public.

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