Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 09:19:27 -0400 From: paksao <paksao@home.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: outlook alternative for freeBSD ? Message-ID: <37BEA75F.5875AB0C@home.com>
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I've been playing with freeBsd for a while now at work and I like it and I'm just starting to get to the point where I understand how it works but I am facing a crisis and I don't have time to search out the solution from the man pages and my friends who use BSD don't know the answer. A new manager has come in and he likes MS outlook he thinks it is the way the company should go with email and inter-office communications and email. he also likes NT( He never administered it but he considers himself an expert). After using it as a (fileserver/PDC for 3 yrs I don't though it may be a function of my not having configured it correctly. My heart hasn't been in it though I have done a lot of reading and brought a lot of books.) I have plans to switch over to a freeBSD 3.2 server, with Samba as a PDC and Run our main database on a Linux box using Oracle 8. But In order to keep from being saddled with another NT server( when I want to get rid of the one I have now.) I need to provide an alternative to the Outlook proposal and hopefully a cost effective one. I think I have enough pull to get a freebsd proposal accepted but I need some help figuring out how to implement it or even if it is possible within a reasonable timeframe. additional background -company has 35 employees will expand to 65 in the next year. - I am the IS department - my users don't know Unix,bsd and are only reasonable competent in windows. -for email we use Eudora 3.0 and Netscape 4.5 on the workstations but if the have to learn outlook they can learn to use something else though they are going to need to have a GUI -office 97 is the current office suite mostly word, exceland access - I've done 3 installs ( 2 2.2.8 with xwindows,KDE,samba and 1 3.2 that is as yet unconfigured) -the users are using windows NT ws,windows 95 and windows 98 -workstations are shared forthe most part and the user should be able to access their files email and hte internet from any work station So my questions are: Has anybody done this? (Used freebsd to provide an effective alternative to NT/Outlook.) How would you suggest I go about it? The field is preetty much wide open since I would be starting from scratch ( I would need to buy hardware and software.) Is there commercial or opensource workgroup software for freebsd? I probably left some important details out so feel free to contact me for clarifiction. TIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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