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 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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