How Wise is the Group?
Last night I went to my third LUG meeting at Emory University School of Law facility. For those that don’t follow my social foot prints, I’m a part of a very well established Linux User Group called Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts. These guys have been in the game for a long time and vividly remember the days when x server wasn’t even a twinkle in their distro’s eye. Well last night one of the members, James Taylor, presented the Microsoft Exchange contender, Novell GroupWise.
At first, I thought we would talk about the online collaboration tool, eGroupWare, but I soon realized that this was yet another network or system admin tool. So; I knew the content would be out of my scope of understanding. I was indeed correct on my assumption and found myself dozing off a little more than I’d like. I ended up leaving before the presentation was finished, but I was getting really tired and I wanted to get home bad.
Don’t get me wrong, the presentation was done well, but the content was not directly relevant to me – and it had already been a long day. I didn’t get a chance to ask, but being exposed to this product – it reminded me A LOT of Google Apps. So; I wonder if the folks at Google got their inspiration from this tool. It looks like a great piece of software if I wanted to run a solid nonMicrosoft house, but for the time being – I’ve switched to The Cloud.
Correction: When I originally posted this, I stated that GroupWise was open source. Whoops, my mistake. It most certainly IS NOT open source.
July 17th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Groupwise is “open source”?
July 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am
I don’t think Groupwise is open source… or at least they forgot to tell their customers. The product has a long history and is more of a hack ontop of many (the code still does things like you were doing stuff on 1990 NDS). I think the 8 code is much more of them looking at other products and trying to catchup versus the opposite.
All I can say is that after being on groupware for a couple of years.. I actually yearned to go back to Microsoft Exchange…
July 17th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
So I don’t see how one can claim GroupWise is a MS Exchange contender in open source… That’s a very misleading statement.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Stephen: I might have been duped then. The presenter was very enthusiastic about GroupWise and how awesome it was, etc. He’s had a number of years working with it.
Hub: Is it the fact that I said “open source”? You know what. Now that I think about it, he did say it was closed source. Hmm… I must have assumed that our LUG’s presentations would always be on open source programs. I’ll edit the blog. Thanks for making note of that error.
July 17th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Yeah that sounds less ambiguous. Thanks for the correction.