From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 13 1:18: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [213.52.146.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FF1E37B417 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 01:17:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from pan.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.196]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 163Zhc-0005jr-01; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:17:56 +0000 Received: from waynep by pan.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 163Zft-0000V4-00; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:16:09 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: "Toomas Aas" Cc: Subject: Re: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange References: <20011112102721.H71050-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <200111130731.fAD7Vo928681@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Date: 13 Nov 2001 09:16:09 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200111130731.fAD7Vo928681@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Message-ID: <86r8r3f2ue.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Toomas Aas" writes: > 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. Granted, it might be usable. But then you face an even bigger challenge than just moving everyone to a different server platform. You have to convince your company to change the way people use mail. In a 300+ person organisation, no sane director wil ever pick this option. Loss of productivity and retraining costs would be through the roof! -- - Wayne Pascoe | I have a very firm grasp on reality. freebsd@molemanarmy.com | I can reach out and strangle it any time! http://www.molemanarmy.com | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message