"GroupWise 7 provides a level of security that other collaboration packages are not offering at the moment. With the low number of security and virus issues and the low level of administrative overhead, GroupWise fits our organizations needs."

On the server side, GroupWise 7 Postoffices and Message Transfer Agent (MTA) are running on Netware 6.5.

Gray was equally impressed with its performance and ease to implement.

"The server side of the product runs on older hardware without any noticeable level of performance degradation, and the reliability of the product makes my job easier to convince our management team we have implemented the right choice for mail within TAFE," he said.

Looking ahead, Gray said TAFE Tasmania will evaluate some of the portable options to run on top GroupWise. It currently has some Blackberry products on trial amongst the teaching staff.