Novell is pleased to announce the availability of a product central to the success of any Novell partner operating in the workgroup and collaboration space: Novell GroupWise 8! From the Web 2.0-enabled Home View and rich contact management capabilities to calendar technology that lets users work across organizational, geographical and even system boundaries—this is the product your customers have been waiting for.

You can point them to a wealth of product information—including a technical white paper, Flash demo, articles, and videos in which we introduce our own executives to some of the product's best new features—at http://www.novell.com/groupwise. You can also visit http://www.novell.com/partners/secure/enablement/collaboration/personal-productivity/ for the latest GroupWise training and sales enablement materials.

In addition, many of you heard Nokia's recent announcement about discontinuing Intellisync support, and you may be wondering about Novell's mobility strategy moving forward. We're excited to share that we're pursuing a GroupWise 8 mobility solution leveraging ActiveSync in 2009. While details are still being finalized, you can get more information in the FAQ at http://www.novell.com/rc/docrepository/public/13/basedocument.2008-11-18.7530126516/groupwise8_faq_en.pdf. Please remember that, as we've previously indicated, GroupWise Mobile Server customers will continue to be supported by Novell through October of 2009, and by Nokia for a year after that.

We're pleased to add GroupWise 8 to your portfolio and look forward to supporting you in achieving your sales goals in 2009.