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Exclusive Interviews
Dean Lythgoe - Novell Director of Engineering for GroupWise PDF Print E-mail
Recently GroupWiseR conducted an interview with Dean Lythgoe, the Director of Engineering for Novell GroupWise. Here are some quotes from this exclusive interview:
 
  • "... most excited about Bonsai ...most anticipated release ... end-user focused ... delivers on a whole range of end-user requests, enhancements and must haves......"

  •  "... GroupWise will continue to support NetWare and our customers on NetWare. We also expect a lot of them to migrate to newer operating systems that will take advantage of the latest hardware advancements. Our customers will find that GroupWise is just as stable and reliable on Linux...."
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Tommy Mikkelsen - ITQ & Novell Developer Forum Sysop PDF Print E-mail
Our  GroupWiseR reporter Sander van Vugt had an Exclusive Interview with Tommy Mikkelsen from Denmark, working for a company called "IT Quality", a Novell  Platinum partners over there. Tommy's focus is on GroupWise, apart from that he's also working with other "traditional" Novell products, like ZEN works, NetWare and eDirectory. Tommy works with GroupWise since version 5.0, and with Novell products for 14 years now. Here are some quotes from this interview:
 
  • "...GroupWise is a major competitor. It's still one in the top 3 of collaboration suites. I think that within the next 10 years, it will be bigger than Notes....."

  •  "... the GroupWise community ... is the strongest Novell community in the world. The NUI was important in the past, but now it is almost gone..."
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Bill Pray - Novell, Product Manager for GroupWise PDF Print E-mail
Our  GroupWiseR reporter Sander van Vugt had an Exclusive Interview with Bill Pray, the second of the two Product Managers for GroupWise. Here are some quotes from this interview:
 
  • "...GroupWise needs to be enhanced ... first  mobility... second  teaming ...  third ... real time collaboration...."

  • "Collaboration on Linux is growing: IDC expects 30% raise in the next 5 years..."

  •  "... Novell is a smart company, we can be very responsive to the customers and that is our strong point as compared to the Microsoft and IBM offerings ..."

  • "... to be honest: the US needs a GroupWiseR as well..."
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Václav Šamša - TDP, Mr. GroupWise for Czech & Slovak Republic PDF Print E-mail
Our  GroupWiseR reporter Sander van Vugt recently had an Exclusive Interview with Václav Šamša, the CEO fo TDP, often called "Mr. GroupWise for the Czech & Slovak Republic". Here are some quotes from this interview: 
 
  • "I can offer a running GroupWise system for a price that is cheaper than cleaning the floor "
 
  • "When people start to think about the right solution to fulfill they goals, they will come to stable and reliable technology like GroupWise. The problem is that they are not thinking ..."

  • "We believe that GroupWise needs support from a community."
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    Phil Karren - Novell, Product Manager for GroupWise PDF Print E-mail
    Our  GroupWiseR reporter Sander van Vugt had an Exclusive Interview wit Phill Karren, one of the two Product Managers for GroupWise. Here are some quotes from this interview:
     
    • "...Collaboration is the killer app for Linux. There is no serious collaboration suite for Linux yet, so GroupWise on Linux is something really unique...."

    •  "... personally I want to do everything it takes to help GroupWiseR. That's why I'm here on the Tour as well. ..."
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