[NCLUG] Ousting Exchange

[Chris Funk]

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



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Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 4:05 PM
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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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