Comments on: GroupWise Synchronization for iPhone is here- tell your IT department!

By: Sanjeevgpc

Sanjeevgpc — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:02:00 +0000

Did you try this? http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/gw-mail/id335575354?mt=8

By: Ed H

Ed H — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:25:40 +0000

For the iPhone and any other phone that supports ActiveSync (like Google Android, etc) you can sync using Novell's new Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack. In beta now (March 2010) and it works great. I have it syncing today with my Motorola DROID and it works great for Contacts, Messages and Calender items bi-directionally.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:39:43 +0000

Well said, Chris! GroupWise is great, to use and to admin. Not sure how it is with most folks, but messaging system reliability IS an issue here. COST for hard/software is an even bigger one, lately. My BBerry Storm has no issues what-so-ever interfacing with GW, "management" personel are buying BBerrys in droves here, and, as site email admin, I am one very happy camper. Looks like now my boss' lone iPhone has hope, but at what cost? Odd... a call to the Notify Link Sales department got me a recording.

By: Chris Hughes

Chris Hughes — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:26:51 +0000

aRSoN - Uhhh...first, both Blackberry BES and the Intellisync product have been around for YEARS offering push and fetch solutions from GroupWise. BES server and 5 clients were/are free with GroupWise and the Intellisync product offers push to hundred of cell phone mobiles YEARS before Microsoft had their server and is included free with GroupWise. I have worked almost two decades as a high end system integrator and long ago lost count of how many Exchange and GroupWise systems I have installed/upgraded. Yes, Novell is late to the game on the iPhone but you really should have a clue before you spout of pure BS. I can show you a dozen companies with over 25,000 users each and a SINGLE email admin who is bored most of the day - and I can show you a dozen companies with 1,000 users, 2+ full time admin for Exchange and well over 3 times the number of servers. There is not a single feature that Microsoft has that Novell didn't have years ago on the mail platform. Now, I am the first to agree that prior to 7/8 the GroupWise client was butt ugly and I much preferred Outlook. That has changed. Oh...and just an FYI, since GroupWise was born from the WordPerfect suite (which is what every Lawyer used in those days) there are 10 law firms on GroupWise for every 1 on Exchange.

That said, I honestly like Exchange more - since I make money based on project work, not license sales, and I get about 5x as many hours out of Exchange customers even though I have more and bigger GroupWise customers.

By: John

John — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:41:42 +0000

I am not an IT guy...could someone please tell me if i can get an iphone and use groupwise without trying to pursuade work to pay more $$$ to make it compatible? Would be of great help!

thanks

By: Robie

Robie — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:58:16 +0000

Why doesn't Novell develop an application for the Iphone. Apple released the SDK over a year ago.

By: aRSoN

aRSoN — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:29:59 +0000

Tommy, I have worked in an MS shop and used Exchange/Outlook but work with Novell/Groupwise. While I agree there have been less issues, would you like to explain to the dozens of people here why they can't have a mobile solution while everyone else does, just because we're hanging on to Groupwise??? You know, pen and paper was more reliable than computers, too. They never crashed or blue screened and always did what you told them to. The issue, as with a lot of things these days, isn't so much reliability. Reliability means nothing to the lawyer who can't use his BB or iPhone because we have no solution other than bouncing emails around (with no calendar or contacts). To Sally Secretary, that's fine, we'll never hear from her. But we are asked all the time about mobile solutions and have none, apparently, until we go with the flow, even if it isn't as reliable as GW or pen and paper.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:20:00 +0000

paanta and Chad, you guys clearly don't know what you're talking about. Anyone who has used and administered both Groupwise and, I'm assuming your preferred alternative of Exchange because it's usually Exchange lovers that make such comments, knows that Groupwise is far more reliable, efficient, cost effective and the list goes on. There's nothing good about Exchange. Like most other Microsoft products, Exchange doesn't deserve the market share that it has, and only has it due to the MS Monopoly - not based on its own merit. The people that like it don't really like Exchange anyway - they like Outlook, which granted, is a nice product. Groupwise works very nicely with an Outlook plugin for those people. It's sad that there's so much poor advice circulating out there. Of course if you're not pushing for Exchange, your opinions are still equally as uninformed. Groupwise is an excellent corporate groupware system that most technical folks that support it hope will remain viable for a long time to come.

By: Chad Garrett

Chad Garrett — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:15:21 +0000

Dieter, this could be really cool!

By: Dieter Bohn

Dieter Bohn — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:56:03 +0000

zomg zomg. We may just need to buy this, depending on support. GMAIL:

http://notifylink.blogspot.com/2008/07/notify-technology-joins-google.html

By: Chad Garrett

Chad Garrett — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:19:28 +0000

Amen to that, paanta

By: paanta

paanta — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:06:34 +0000

Thank god. I'm so tired of my kludgey solution of forwarding all my mail to mail2web in order to get push email. Though of course the best solution would be to get off of groupwise entirely.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:53:10 +0000

I am still not 100% convinced this whole "groupwise" thing really exists

But this is awesome news, and interesting given that others could theoretically also get "push" going. While Gmail has been particularly annoying for me as of late, a really well done IMAP IDLE implementation would be killer...