[NCLUG] Ousting Exchange

[DJ Eshelman]

I appreciate the (rather prompt) feedback!

I'd probably just end up using FC4 - something we've just kind of fallen
into by default, but Debian would be nice too.

thanks

-DJ

On 4/19/06, Chris Funk <chris at us-reports.com> wrote:
>
> Hi DJ,
>
> Going through the same thing here.  I have been evaluating Scalix for the
> last couple weeks.  Very nice.  I also looked at openexchange and
> communigate.  Neither of them compares to Scalix's outlook plugin. And the
> AJAX web client is very cool.  The admin of scalix takes a bit to get used
> to though, but that may just be because I'm not terribly familiar with
> sendmail.  Setting up users and such is nice with the GUI, but most of the
> powerful stuff is CLI.   I set it up on Centos 4.3.  They say it is not
> supported, but there is plenty of stuff on their forums about how to get it
> going.  Basically just changing the redhat-release file to say Redhat rather
> than Centos.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 4:05 PM
> To: nclug at nclug.org
> Subject: [NCLUG] Ousting Exchange
>
> Hey all -
>
> Long time no see - Tuesdays have been in conflict schedule-wise for many
> months now...
>
> Anyway, I have a client with virtually no budget that is wanting to get
> some
> groupware functionality out of Outlook 2003.
>
> No, they don't want to migrate to a Linux platform (of course) for the
> desktops but I'm wondering if there are any good solutions out there for
> doing Exchange features without the per-user price tag of Windows Small
> Business or standard server.
>
> I was looking at Scalix (.com) - nice that they have a 25 user 'free'
> edition but I have no clue as to whether it works, if it's worth the time
> testing, etc.
>
> I've also heard that Novell's 'granted-thru-acquisition' groupware
> features
> (aka SuSE and Ximian) are available but I've never gotten a clear picture
> on
> how licensing works with that, if licensing exists at all (someone told me
> Novell was doing the Red Hat 'pay for support but not for software'
> thing).
>
> Any thoughts?  Other workable solutions that won't rack up tons of support
> or setup hours for a 5 person office?
>
> you all rule
>
> -DJ
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