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Date:      13 Nov 2001 09:16:09 +0000
From:      Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@molemanarmy.com>
To:        "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange
Message-ID:  <86r8r3f2ue.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>
In-Reply-To: <200111130731.fAD7Vo928681@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
References:  <20011112102721.H71050-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <200111130731.fAD7Vo928681@lv.raad.tartu.ee>

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"Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> 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       | 

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