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From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za>
To: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>,
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Subject: RE: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:42:25 +0200
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> From: Toomas Aas
>
> Hi Wayne!
>
> On 12 Nov 01 at 23:06 you wrote:
>
> > If however, they are using it for shared calendaring or the calendar
> > and mail client integration, be careful. I don't know of any
> > applications on Unix platforms that provide this kind of 'groupware'.
> >
> > If anyone has any information to contradict this, I'd be interested to
> > hear it. I'd love to be able to punt a decent alternative to Exchange.
>
> The guys at http://www.horde.org/ are working on a sort of
> web-based groupware suite which is written entirely in PHP. I
> haven't tried out the entire suite - I'm only using the e-mail part
> - but from what I've heard the latest version is quite usable.

And there is 'phpgroupware' which you will find in the ports.  Largely
functional and quite pretty, but there are still some functionality gaps.

The difference is that it all (calendars, etc) runs via a browser, NOT via
the mail client.  Each approach, obviously, has its own pros and cons.  You
must decide what will work in your environment.

Patrick.


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