You can probably get by with the Groupwise newsgroup and the TIDs on Novell's website to configure and maintain your GW system, but its much easier to have all the info you need in one place. I bungled a test install and then another one, and then got it right when I read the book and understood why I was doing what I was doing.As for Novell's viability into the future, I'll stop buying and using Novell products when either I am dead or Novell is dead and not before. Novell products aren't as simple to set up as MS, but they are far more functional, robust, scalable and stable than any of the swill that the beast of Redmond pumps out.Buy Netware. Buy Groupwise, and buy the guides. Fire your MSCE's and hire CNEs.