The Simple Groupware project has just released version 0.409 of its Web-based groupware product. The changes include an integrated wiki.

Unison is a groupware product first presented at Cebit 2008 that combines PBX telephony, a groupware server, instant messaging and directory services with its own Windows client. An online trial version is available for anyone interested in the product.

Following the server component, groupware specialist Open-Xchange has now released administrative and installation tools under thee GPLv2.

Novell today announced it has acquired SiteScape, a leader in open source team collaboration, in a move that will create interoperable, open source and open standards-based workspaces for team productivity.SiteScape, the founder of the ICEcore open source collaboration project, brings impressive team workspace and real-time collaboration capabilities to Novell.

Indian software developer Synovel released the latest 0.4 version of its groupware client, Spicebird, just a few days ago.

Security experts are advising users to update to the latest version of the Web-based Horde groupware, which was released just a few days ago.

En route to version 2.0 of its Web-based groupware product, Egroupware has reached the first milestone of three, which was scheduled for late in 2008.

The installation routine with Version 8 of Lotus Notes for Linux, which was released by IBM in September, leaves a whole bunch of files with read, write and executable permissions set for any user behind on the filesystem.