Novell Vibe

After being acquired by Attachment last November the former collaboration market leader Novell continues to exist under its own name and develop its products. Novell's new hope - Novell Vibe Cloud - is the result of merging of other Novell hopes to return to the game: Novell Teaming and Novell Pulse. At the first glance Vibe Cloud looks like yet another enterprise Facebook clone, based on the microblogs (like Chatter or Yammer), but it also has some interesting features. Each message in Vibe Cloud microblogs can be either a short status updates or an online document like "wave" in the Google Wave. This document can be quickly shared with other users or groups for real time collaboration.

Novell was formerly #3 after Microsoft and IBM on the enterprise collaboration market (with its email system Novell GroupWise). When intranet solutions became popular, the company unveiled with some delay Novell Teaming, which it positioned as a Sharepoint  alternative. But this system hasn't become very popular. So now Novell hurry to be among the first vendors to provide modern enterprise social systems with real-time capabilities. The new Novell hope is Novell Pulse, that looks very similar to Google Wave and also is able to work with this Google product. Novell Pulse - is a unique tool, as it provides a combination of microblogging, social networking and next generation real-time messaging.