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Your mission: Take the best groupware Web interface and make it so much better that even grizzled, jaded veterans will gasp. While you're at it, add new Internet standards to the client and messaging agents, replace the WebAccess agent's CGI extensions with Java servlets, and provide a comprehensive, Web-based monitor. Oh, and don't forget to make it easy to install and improve the agent run-time environment for NetWare and NT. Novell's GroupWise engineers embraced this mission with gusto, and have dubbed the result the GroupWise 5.5 Enhancement Pack.
If you run a GroupWise 5.5 shop, installing the Enhancement Pack is a must. Your clients will love you for it, especially if they use the WebAccess software. If you don't run GroupWise but are thinking about implementing groupware, give this package serious consideration.
I tested Enhancement Pack Public Beta 1 in NETWORK COMPUTING's RealWorld Labs at Syracuse University using NetWare 5 and a three-server setup: a GroupWise server, a WebAccess server and a Web monitor server. The GroupWise server included a post-office agent (POA), a message transfer agent (MTA) and the GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA). The WebAccess server included Netscape's Enterprise Server for NetWare, a Java virtual machine dVM) v1.1.7b, the GroupWise WebAccess agent and the Java servlet-based spell checker. The Web monitor server included the Netscape server, the JVM and the Java-based GroupWise Monitor servlet.
The agent run-time environment has been enhanced for NetWare and NT environments. During the install routine to my NetWare 5 servers, I selected an NSS volume on...