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Frontéri Network Consulting (FNC) is part of the GroupWiseR
initiative
GroupWiseR
is an European initiative gathering GroupWise enthusiasts all over EMEA (Europe,
MiddleEast, Africa). Soon will the
GroupWiseR
website ready!
Positioning GroupWise & GroupWiseR
The GroupWise R
initiative was started by a group of
people believing GroupWise is one of the most interesting solutions in today’s
heterogeneous world to deliver an Integrated Collaboration Environment (ICE) to
a growing number of people. With more than 35 million seats GroupWise is
already in the Top 3 of ICE solutions and when looking at acceptance of the
newest releases GroupWise takes the lead with 75% (22 million) running the
latest release against 17% (19 million) running the latest MS Exchange2003.
Because of Novell’s solid Linux strategy GroupWise is in an excellent position
to grow, while growth with others flattens out (MS Exchange) or the installed
base even shrinks (IBM Notes).
Characteristics of the GroupWiseR
community
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GroupWise R
bundles the energy of GroupWise
enthusiasts in countries all over the world to put GroupWise on the agenda
(again) of more and more people. |
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People support
GroupWise R
on a personal title;
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It’s a bundling of individuals working
together with all existing entities related to GroupWise, being Novell,
partners, usergroups, resellers, end-users and the like. |
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Currently appr. 125 people, 20+ countries. |
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Projects of the GroupWiseR
community
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Very successful
meetings
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Dec. 2004, Bracknell with 30+ attendees. |
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June 2004, The Hague
with 50 attendees |
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Feb. 2004,
Düsseldorf with 30+ attendees |
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Helping Advisor
Media to organize the
First European GroupWise
Summit in the Hague, June 2004, 200
attendees, every major partner was present, a big success. |
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Supporting or starting
local User Groups,
often connected to existing groups like Novell Users International
(NUI) |
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The GroupWiseR
website will present GroupWise
related information about:
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Products:
all GroupWise related products, categorized with background info |
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Publications:
from many well known writers like Danita Zanrè and Tay Kratzer |
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Partners:
a complete list of all the partners creating GW solutions |
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Parties:
GroupWise related events, locally as well as globally |
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People:
identify peers that work with GroupWise, “give GroupWise a face” |
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The intend is to
embrace other (web-)projects, enforce them, not push them out. |
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The GroupWise R
quote-signature, an applet created by
one of the partners which identifies the sender as part of the GroupWiseR
initiative, creating awareness |
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The GroupWise R
event-script, based on already
successful events in for example Austria, being re-used in other countries to
organize similar successful events |
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GW Call-for-Action,
a very successful Dutch initiative collecting end-user feedback, bundle
this into a single document to be discussed with Novell to improve GroupWise |
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GroupWise R
communication goes via e-mail
as well as via free
Skype-headsets |
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GroupWise R
newsletters will be delivered by one
or more members per country |
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Events
scheduled all over EMEA in Spring 2005 |
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